Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Adapted from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Anerma.
Source Firkin
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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
Derived from a drawing in 'Historiske Afhandlinger', Adolf Jorgensen, 1898.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
Source Firkin
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo