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
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
Niki Brown
December 11, 2008Thanks for the post! Some great wood textures in there that I will definitely put to good use
Forte
December 11, 2008Awesome picks! Thanks Much!!!
Ony
December 11, 2008Great collection!
Alexandre J.
December 11, 2008Nice compilation, i will add it in the texture section of my site : http://www.webdesignerheaven.com
Thanks
Franz Jeitz
December 11, 2008This 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 11, 2008@Frank – I’m glad you like them, and great work on the ones you created.
Subjective
December 11, 2008Excellent!
redwall_hp
December 11, 2008A nice collection, I’ll bookmark for future reference.
Seth Stevenson
December 11, 2008Best collection of textures I’ve seen in awhile. Thanks!
Ricks
December 11, 2008Well compiled list guys! Excellent!!
Honour Chick
December 11, 2008absolutely awesome textures. thanks for the compilation
Angel
December 11, 2008Nice collection. Definitely bookmarking for future reference. I especially adore the vintage textures.
Jacque Armijo
December 11, 2008My jaw dropped. And it didn’t stop until I finished looking. Beautiful collection! Will download for sure. Grazie!
Ashish Lohorung Rai
December 11, 2008just wow!….love this textures…….got the link from smashing magazine twitter….
Torley
December 12, 2008Also 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 12, 2008I guess most of people like free stuff. But don’t forget to read the rules and credit requirements.
Pokrate
December 12, 2008I liked the collection. It would great if you can post some site links where these textures are used.
Deny Sri Supriyono
December 12, 2008great 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 12, 2008@Deny – Thanks for pointing out the incorrect link. It is fixed now.
Timothy
December 12, 2008Nice list! Delicioused
efimor
December 12, 2008Wow! looks like awesome textures collection!
Photoclinique
December 15, 2008You forgot this:
http://www.photoclinique.de/webdesign/motion-texturen-von-photoclinique/
www.cerjy.net
December 16, 2008Those are some awesome textures! I’ll definitely give some of those a try out! Thanks!
Mile
December 16, 2008Thanks for the list, it’s very useful.
poomerchant
December 16, 2008‘shopped
Paul
December 17, 2008Wonderful! This is an awesome collection. Very helpful. Thanks.
shehab6003
December 17, 2008i love them they’re so helpful
Katie
December 17, 2008Excellent choices! The fabric pack will be really helpful for custom content for The Sims. Thank you very much.
jasen
December 17, 2008Amazing useful texture packs! thumbs up!!
max
December 18, 2008great collection – just what i needed for a client – thanks
Jinky Williams
December 19, 2008Holy 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 19, 2008Thank you so much for these links, I grabbed all the free ones!
Pratahkal
December 21, 2008Nice texture background collection. Thank you for your contribution.
Alex
December 21, 2008Awesome textures. Thanks!
konekoya
January 1, 2009Thanks so much!
Goph3r
January 2, 2009Great list of textures, thanks!
Jil Nelson
January 2, 2009Beautiful post. I love the textures you’ve presented. Thanks.
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Auggie4000
January 7, 2009Thank you! These are very nice and will be VERY useful!
Hip Hop Maker
January 7, 2009Great post. these are some great textures
projectgrafix
January 8, 2009very nice! Thank you, will come handy in template designing
Nicolas.Pek
January 10, 2009Thanks so much! great share. Facilitate the design process…
More share website: http://www.gfxchina.com
Richh
January 21, 2009Very 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
one giant
February 5, 2009are any of these textures tile-able?
Jade
February 9, 2009All so gorgeous.
NoVolume
February 24, 2009A great collection and very useful resource!
Akrid
March 21, 2009/get 2008
Good thing I just installed my 1TB hardrive! Much obliged.
Regis
April 8, 2009Tranks
Perfect textures
A great collection and very useful resource!
Alexander Gessler
April 14, 2009Great article! I use some parts on my large background homepage.
moih60
April 20, 2009really amazing work..thanks for your effort
z.Yleo77
April 24, 2009very good awesome list… and i like it
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