A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A bit of scratched up grayness. Always good.
Source Dmitry
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by DavidZydd
Source Firkin
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background
Source GDJ
A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Square design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin