I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Pattern #100! A black classic knit-looking pattern.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
White circles connecting on a light gray background.
Source Mark Collins
You know, tiny and sharp. I’m sure you’ll find a use for it.
Source Atle Mo
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.
Source Lazur URH
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua