[Inkscape-user] how to repeat an image to create background pattern?

I am looking for documentation or tool to repeat a small SVG image to create a background pattern.

For example if my image is "X". I want it repeated like:

X X X X X X

X X X X X X

X X X X X X

X X X X X X

X X X X X X

X X X X X X

(Or something similar to that. Hopefully your email client doesn't break my nice formatting above.)

I don't want to do this manually (of copying and aligning each image). And I need the final version to keep the "scalable" properties just in case I need to resize.

Thanks

Jeremy C. Reed