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By Henry Jones

29 Most Useful Texture Packs of 2008

The trend of using texture in web design has been around for a while, but in 2008 it was taken to a new level. Not only were there many beautiful sites launched that made use of textures, but there were also lots of useful texture packs created. I’ve taken the time to sort through them and hand pick the ones that I feel stand out in usefulness and beauty.

Grunge Textures

Christy Sobolewski Textures

Christy Sobolewski Textures

vintage grunge textures

vintage grunge textures

color grunge textures

color grunge textures

hardcore vintage grunge

hardcore vintage grunge

Large Paper Grunge Textures

Large Paper Grunge Textures

Anatomy of a Dumpster: 12 Textures

Anatomy of a Dumpster: 12 Textures

rust textures

rust textures

Grunge II Texture Pack

Grunge II Texture Pack

Old Grunge Photo Texture Pack

Old Grunge Photo Texture Pack

Grungy and Dirty Textures

Grungy and Dirty Textures

24 Free High-Res Textures

24 Free High-Res Textures

TEXTURES PACK 1

TEXTURES PACK 1

Vintage Textures

15 Old Book Cover Textures

15 Old Book Cover Textures

17 More Old Book Cover Textures

17 More Old Book Cover Textures

Free High-Res Texture Pack: The Anatomy of a *Really* Old Book

Free High-Res Texture Pack: The Anatomy of a *Really* Old Book

Vintage II Texture Pack

Vintage II Texture Pack

Vintage Texture Pack

Vintage  Texture Pack

Vintage Bum

Vintage Bum

Wood Textures

Textures – Wood

Textures - Wood

Local Texture: Three by One

Local Texture: Three by One

Dark Wood Texture Pack

Dark Wood Texture Pack

Free Hi Resolution Wood Textures

Free Hi Resolution Wood Textures

Fabric Textures

20 Fabric Textures to Dress Up your Design

20 Fabric Textures to Dress Up your Design

Free Fabric Texture Pack

Free Fabric Texture Pack

Paper and Cardboard Textures

Natural Paper Texture Pack

Natural Paper Texture Pack

Cardboard Textures and Objects

Cardboard Textures and Objects

Rough Paper Textures

Rough Paper Textures

5 Fantastically Free High Res Brown Paper Textures

5 Fantastically Free High Res Brown Paper Textures

Free High Resolution Plain and Grunge Paper Textures

Free High Resolution Plain and Grunge Paper Textures

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56 Comments

  • Niki Brown
    December 11th, 2008

    Thanks for the post! Some great wood textures in there that I will definitely put to good use :)

  • Forte
    December 11th, 2008

    Awesome picks! Thanks Much!!!

  • Ony
    December 11th, 2008

    Great collection!

  • Alexandre J.
    December 11th, 2008

    Nice compilation, i will add it in the texture section of my site : http://www.webdesignerheaven.com

    Thanks

  • Franz Jeitz
    December 11th, 2008

    This is a great collection. I didn’t know half the textures you showcased. Bookmarked and stumbled it for future reference. Thank you for including some of my textures as well!

  • Henry
    December 11th, 2008

    @Frank – I’m glad you like them, and great work on the ones you created.

  • Subjective
    December 11th, 2008

    Excellent!

  • redwall_hp
    December 11th, 2008

    A nice collection, I’ll bookmark for future reference.

  • Seth Stevenson
    December 11th, 2008

    Best collection of textures I’ve seen in awhile. Thanks!

  • Ricks
    December 11th, 2008

    Well compiled list guys! Excellent!!

  • Honour Chick
    December 11th, 2008

    absolutely awesome textures. thanks for the compilation :)

  • Angel
    December 11th, 2008

    Nice collection. Definitely bookmarking for future reference. I especially adore the vintage textures.

  • Jacque Armijo
    December 11th, 2008

    My jaw dropped. And it didn’t stop until I finished looking. Beautiful collection! Will download for sure. Grazie!

  • Ashish Lohorung Rai
    December 11th, 2008

    just wow!….love this textures…….got the link from smashing magazine twitter….

  • Torley
    December 12th, 2008

    Also saw the link via Smashing Mag and popurls. =) Thanx for sharing these terrific textures! I love quality textures, they’re like wonderful little swatches of artistic intensity.

    I’ve also made many seamless textures in a variety of styles from painterly to grungy to outright surreal which I welcome you to use… even for commercial purposes. :) ENJOY http://torley.com/textures

  • Tomas
    December 12th, 2008

    I guess most of people like free stuff. But don’t forget to read the rules and credit requirements.

  • Pokrate
    December 12th, 2008

    I liked the collection. It would great if you can post some site links where these textures are used.

  • Deny Sri Supriyono
    December 12th, 2008

    great textures collection!

    it will be great if there is an information below each texture about their licence.

    oh ya, color grunge textures seem to have a wrong link — it points to vintage grunge textures link.

  • Henry
    December 12th, 2008

    @Deny – Thanks for pointing out the incorrect link. It is fixed now.

  • Timothy
    December 12th, 2008

    Nice list! Delicioused

  • efimor
    December 12th, 2008

    Wow! looks like awesome textures collection!

  • Photoclinique
    December 15th, 2008

    You forgot this:
    http://www.photoclinique.de/webdesign/motion-texturen-von-photoclinique/

  • www.cerjy.net
    December 16th, 2008

    Those are some awesome textures! I’ll definitely give some of those a try out! Thanks!

  • Mile
    December 16th, 2008

    Thanks for the list, it’s very useful.

  • poomerchant
    December 16th, 2008

    ’shopped

  • Paul
    December 17th, 2008

    Wonderful! This is an awesome collection. Very helpful. Thanks.

  • shehab6003
    December 17th, 2008

    i love them they’re so helpful :)

  • Katie
    December 17th, 2008

    Excellent choices! The fabric pack will be really helpful for custom content for The Sims. Thank you very much.

  • jasen
    December 17th, 2008

    Amazing useful texture packs! thumbs up!!

  • max
    December 18th, 2008

    great collection – just what i needed for a client – thanks

  • Jinky Williams
    December 19th, 2008

    Holy crap.

    That’s so much stuff. This is an awesome collection. I am consistently amazed by the graciousness of people on the internet.

  • anna simmons
    December 19th, 2008

    Thank you so much for these links, I grabbed all the free ones!

  • Pratahkal
    December 21st, 2008

    Nice texture background collection. Thank you for your contribution.

  • Alex
    December 21st, 2008

    Awesome textures. Thanks!

  • konekoya
    January 1st, 2009

    Thanks so much!

  • Goph3r
    January 2nd, 2009

    Great list of textures, thanks!

  • Jil Nelson
    January 2nd, 2009

    Beautiful post. I love the textures you’ve presented. Thanks.

    j

  • Auggie4000
    January 7th, 2009

    Thank you! These are very nice and will be VERY useful!

  • Hip Hop Maker
    January 7th, 2009

    Great post. these are some great textures

  • projectgrafix
    January 8th, 2009

    very nice! Thank you, will come handy in template designing :)

  • Nicolas.Pek
    January 10th, 2009

    Thanks so much! great share. Facilitate the design process…

    More share website: http://www.gfxchina.com

  • Richh
    January 21st, 2009

    Very good texture collection, one of the mosts useful I’ve found recently – with genuinely good resources too! Thanks a lot, you’ve saved me a lot of time trying to compile my own list :)

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    January 21st, 2009

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  • one giant
    February 5th, 2009

    are any of these textures tile-able?

  • Jade
    February 9th, 2009

    All so gorgeous.

  • NoVolume
    February 24th, 2009

    A great collection and very useful resource!

  • Akrid
    March 21st, 2009

    /get 2008

    Good thing I just installed my 1TB hardrive! Much obliged.

  • Regis
    April 8th, 2009

    Tranks
    Perfect textures
    A great collection and very useful resource!

  • Alexander Gessler
    April 14th, 2009

    Great article! I use some parts on my large background homepage.

  • moih60
    April 20th, 2009

    really amazing work..thanks for your effort

  • z.Yleo77
    April 24th, 2009

    very good awesome list… and i like it

  • nan
    April 29th, 2009

    love these textures1!! thank youuuuuu!!

  • fevdsf
    May 12th, 2009

    Please, make a discription at the top about license:)
    Can use it in commercial sites?

  • SMALL BUSINESS SEO
    May 26th, 2009

    great textures..I think they’ll work for design site or an artist’s site but I think for something more corporate it might not be a good fit…

  • vans->
    June 4th, 2009

    Genial, buen post, gracias por el buen aporte, de verdad. Son muy buenos las texturas de las paginas linkiadas. Thanks my friend!

  • Fred Campbell
    June 17th, 2009

    Holy moly!Great resource and free. Thank you

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