Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
A free background pattern with abstract green tiles.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A gray background pattern with a texture of textile. Suits perfectly for web design.
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
As the original image 's page size is too large for its image size, I remixed it.
Source Yamachem
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 8
Source GDJ
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos