Tile-able Black Paper Background #1076
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A black tile-able background with paper-like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
More Textures
Simple bump #172
Dark CC 0A 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
Fence panel #2577
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 331 (version 2) #1745
Pink CC 0Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by TheDigitalArtist
Source Firkin
Page ornament #1993
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Pattern generator #161
Noise CC 0A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Background pattern 259 (colour 5) #2098
Pink CC 0Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
gourd seamless pattern #2277
Brown CC 0The image depicts a seamless pattern which includes hexagonally-aligned gourds with BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
Gray Dots Background Pattern #1127
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background pattern with impressed gray dots.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background@2X #529
Noise CC 0Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Abstract Background Design@2X #791
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 #457
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ
Brilliant@2X #754
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
Rough Fabric Pattern (Dark Brown) #1166
Fabric CC BY-SA 3.0A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
Inflicted #117
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
White Brick Wall@2X #594
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Subtle Striped Brown Background Pattern #940
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen