Zodiac pattern (black background) #267
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A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. Version with black background.

Source Firkin

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Spiral pattern 3 #1934
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From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.

Source Firkin

Double Lined@2X #52
 Stripes  CC BY-SA 3.0

Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.

Source Adam Anlauf

Background pattern 6 #225
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Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.

Source Firkin

Colorful Stripes Background #400
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Colorful Stripes Background

Source GDJ

Wood Background Pattern #882
 Wood  CC BY-SA 3.0

A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.

Source V. Hartikainen

crissXcross@2X #112
 Dark  CC BY-SA 3.0

Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.

Source Ashton

Washi@2X #289
 Light  CC BY-SA 3.0

Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!

Source Carolynne

Prismatic Dots Background 4@2X #508
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Prismatic Dots Background 4

Source GDJ

Background Patterns - Slate #244
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If you want png files of thisu can download them here :

Source Viscious-Speed

Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background@2X #450
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Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background

Source GDJ

Decorative divider 198 #2437
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From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.

Source Firkin

Background pattern 315 (colour 6) #1840
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The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i

Source Firkin

Pattern generator #161
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A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.

Source Lazur URH

Square ornament 38 #2147
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From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.

Source Firkin