These are simply made of component transfering and compositing with flood fills.
Here is how the base is laid down.
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Have to admit this is the second corrected version. Firstly there is a bug in inkscape's filter editor preventing to type in and store the right rgb values for flood fills.
Secondly the colormatrix used in the previous version didn't produce a fully opaque area resulting the checkerboard showing through the solid areas.