Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
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
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
More leather, and this time it’s bigger! You know, in case you need that.
Source Elemis
It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless background colored in pale orange. It has a paper like texture with diagonal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Green Web Background, Seamless tile.
Source V. Hartikainen