A black tile-able background with paper-like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from an image on Pixabay uploaded by Prawny
Source Firkin
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Bit of a strange name on this one, but still nice. Tiny gray square things.
Source Carlos Valdez
Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.
Source Lazur URH
The texture of this background image has some similarities with leather, and it's colored in a dark brown color. So, if you are looking for a dark brown background image for your website, this may be an option for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A background pattern with a look of rough fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman