29 Most Useful Texture Packs of 2008

Posted by Henry Jones on Dec 11, 2008 | 70 Comments

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

vintage grunge textures

color grunge textures

hardcore vintage grunge

Large Paper Grunge Textures

Anatomy of a Dumpster: 12 Textures

rust textures

Grunge II Texture Pack

Old Grunge Photo Texture Pack

Grungy and Dirty Textures

24 Free High-Res Textures

TEXTURES PACK 1

Vintage Textures

15 Old Book Cover Textures

17 More Old Book Cover Textures

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

Vintage II Texture Pack

Vintage Texture Pack

Vintage Bum

Wood Textures

Textures – Wood

Local Texture: Three by One

Dark Wood Texture Pack

Free Hi Resolution Wood Textures

Fabric Textures

20 Fabric Textures to Dress Up your Design

Free Fabric Texture Pack

Paper and Cardboard Textures

Natural Paper Texture Pack

Cardboard Textures and Objects

Rough Paper Textures

5 Fantastically Free High Res Brown Paper Textures

Free High Resolution Plain and Grunge Paper Textures

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69 comments

nan
April 29, 2009
love these textures1!! thank youuuuuu!!
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fevdsf
May 12, 2009
Please, make a discription at the top about license:)
Can use it in commercial sites?
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SMALL BUSINESS SEO
May 26, 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…
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vans->
June 4, 2009
Genial, buen post, gracias por el buen aporte, de verdad. Son muy buenos las texturas de las paginas linkiadas. Thanks my friend!
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Fred Campbell
June 17, 2009
Holy moly!Great resource and free. Thank you
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Manuel
July 29, 2009
Awesome! Exactly what i was searching for.
Thank you very much!
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Personal finance blog
August 3, 2009
love these textures1!!Thank you very much.
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Personal finance blog
August 6, 2009
Great resource and free. Thank you
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Kaplang
August 7, 2009
really nice collection, thanks for sharing
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Manprit
August 18, 2009
great site…thanks for sharing
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pixeldope
August 18, 2009
lovely textures….
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Gillian
September 11, 2009
Fantastic! Thanks so much!
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bee
December 8, 2009
Just found *the* texture I’ve been looking for
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bingrubl
January 25, 2010
Thank you very much!
Just the texture I was looking for
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Minnie
April 15, 2010
AWESOME, THANKS
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December 13, 2010
Excellent blog! I truly love how it’s simple on my eyes and the info is well written. I am wondering how I might be notified whenever a new post has been made. I have subscribed to your rss feed which ought to do the trick! Have a nice day!
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honour chick
September 17, 2011
great and beautiful textures, thanks for sharing them.
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Maddy Quirk
December 6, 2011
Most of the links I tried to follow didn’t work. Might be an idea to remove the ones that go to broken links.
Atleast 6 are no more.
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The Texture Club
August 30, 2012
Great collection! Thanks for sharing
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