One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Adapted from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
I’m guessing this is related to the Sony Vaio? It’s a nice pattern no matter where it’s from.
Source Zigzain
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin