Vintage pattern #1961
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Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.

Source Firkin

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Merely Cubed@2X #590
 Grid  CC BY-SA 3.0

Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.

Source Etienne Rallion

Graphene pattern 1 #2235
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Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Rice Paper 2@2X #341
 Paper  CC BY-SA 3.0

One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.

Source Atle Mo

Blue Wallpaper For Websites #910
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

A blue background wallpaper for websites. It has a seamless texture with vertical stripes. It looks quite nice not only when using as a tiled background on websites, but also on computer desktops.

Source V. Hartikainen

Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background #538
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Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background

Source GDJ

Background pattern 308 (colour 6) #1867
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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 235 #2255
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To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 239 (colour 2) #2216
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To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.

Source Firkin

Simple bump #172
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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

Floral design 70 #2520
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Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 7 (grey) #206
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Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net

Source Firkin

Floral pattern 15 #1753
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The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Cubes@2X #134
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

This reminds me of Game Cube. A nice light 3D cube pattern.

Source Sander Ottens