Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Here'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
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
The tile this is based on was adapted from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by frolicsomepl. It can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
A grayscale fabric pattern with vertical lines of stitch holes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
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 pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
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