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
The image depicts meshed silhouettes of various things.The original image is an OCAL clipart called "Enter FOSSASIA 2016 #IoT T-shirt Design Contest" uploaded by "openclipart".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
The image is a remix of "edo pattern-samekomon".I changed the color of dots from black to white and added BG in light-yellow.
Source Yamachem
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
The image depicts a seamless pattern which includes hexagonally-aligned gourds with BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
It looks very nice I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
More carbon fiber for your collections. This time in white or semi-dark gray.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
A seamless pattern formed from miutopia's cakes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ