From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Plywood Web Background background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
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
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
Zero CC tileable cork floor, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
This one is quite simple in design, it consists of vertical stripes layered on top of a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock