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By Henry Jones

30 Most Incredible Textures for Vintage Style Design

One of the most important aspects of a good vintage style design is the use of authentic looking textures. Since most of you probably don’t have time to browse the local antique shop, and your grandmother’s attic is miles away, we’ve put together a list of some of the best vintage textures we have ever seen.

All of these are free, but make sure to read the terms before using.

You are sure to find a use for these textures, but if you want more, check out the best texture packs from 2008.

Vintage XIII

Vintage XIII

+texture

+texture

Vintage Musk

Vintage Musk

Vintage V

Vintage V

Simple Vintage

Simple Vintage

vintage strip texture

vintage strip texture

Vintage Grunge

Vintage Grunge

map texture 1

map texture 1

Vintage IV

Vintage IV

Victorian grunge V

Victorian grunge V

vintage polka dot texture

vintage polka dot texture

Victorian grunge IV

Victorian grunge IV

Vintage Musk 3

Vintage Musk 3

Grunge Wallpaper 1

Grunge Wallpaper 1

Use This 52

Use This 52

Beauty 96

Beauty 96

Beauty 95

Beauty 95

Vintage Texture II

Vintage Texture II

Art Nouveau Pattern Texture

Art Nouveau Pattern Texture

Antique Script Texture

Antique Script Texture

music texture 4

music texture 4

vintage diamonds

vintage diamonds

Vintage II

Vintage II

Vintage XV

Vintage XV

Vintage XVII

Vintage XVII

Vintage Wall Paper Texture

Vintage Wall Paper Texture

Grunge Wallpaper 2

Grunge Wallpaper 2

Cracked Wallpaper

Cracked Wallpaper

Victorian Wallpaper

Victorian Wallpaper

Vintage XII

Vintage XII

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63 Comments

  • Raymond Selda
    January 14th, 2009

    These are really nice. Thank you

  • Ondrej Vertat
    January 14th, 2009

    Amazing collection, thanks!

  • Niki Brown | The Design O'Blog
    January 14th, 2009

    ohhh nice! Ill have to use some of them for a fun project in the future! Thanks for taking the time to find all the textures!

  • Chris W.
    January 14th, 2009

    I am always looking for good free seamless patterns. Those are often quite a bit more useful. But good post overall.

  • Derek
    January 14th, 2009

    Beautiful list. Thanks for sharing.

  • Zak | Integrated New Media
    January 14th, 2009

    pretty amazing list! always love when someone else can do the hard work and find great textures!

  • Adelle
    January 14th, 2009

    These are beautiful, love this collection. I see some site enhancements as well since last time I checked…looking amazing Henry!

  • Richard Andersson
    January 14th, 2009

    Nice! I like the roccoco textures the best. They look very authentic!

    Thanks!

  • Aaron Irizarry
    January 14th, 2009

    Wow! these are beautiful. Thanks for posting them

    ~ Aaron I

  • David Perel
    January 14th, 2009

    I am not usually crazy about list posts (1 million red websites etc) but this is an absolute keeper.

    Great post and some beautiful textures here. Bookmarked for sure.

  • Henry
    January 14th, 2009

    @Chris W – Yes the seamless ones are nice, but those normally don’t have all of the irregular details that give textures their character.

    @Adelle – Thanks! I’m finally finding time to add the things that I had to leave out when trying to get the site launched.

  • Chowder
    January 14th, 2009

    Im a fan of the art style of a new cartoon show on Cartoon Network called Chowder. instead of coloring in their figures they use alot of these ornate vintage textures and its really well done. if you like this you should check it out

  • azdaja
    January 14th, 2009

    these are gorgeous! I am definitely taking a few. These are worth figuring out how to use textures!

  • Vin Thomas
    January 14th, 2009

    AWESOME LIST!

  • Dainis Graveris
    January 14th, 2009

    very useful textures!! this kind of resource is really rare, appreciated list!

  • andrew
    January 14th, 2009

    great list. Polka dot pic is not linked to the correct URL. Please fix, thanks!

  • Eneza
    January 14th, 2009

    Check out those ancient beauty. Great Collection.

  • projectautomatika
    January 14th, 2009

    amazing textures! thanks!

  • Nathan Hangen
    January 15th, 2009

    Incredible collection. Thanks.

  • iris
    January 15th, 2009

    hello !
    I’m korean…..
    photoshop에 쓸게요…
    (korea 말로 해서 sorry)

  • highgirl
    January 15th, 2009

    amazing textures! thanks!

  • kim min
    January 15th, 2009

    goooooooooooood ~!
    from. south korea..
    http://www.cyworld.com/01024690804

  • Lukes
    January 15th, 2009

    Wow , great stuff. Tweeted

  • Jo
    January 15th, 2009

    Beautiful textures, will definitely come in handy

  • Patternhead
    January 15th, 2009

    Love those vintage patterns. Thanks for sharing :)

  • Mr.Jade Cadelina
    January 15th, 2009

    I can’t stop coming back to this page. I’ve tested them out as Wordpress theme backgrounds. These textures are amazing. :)

    Thanks again for a great list… :)

  • Sineload
    January 15th, 2009

    These textures are great. Thanks for posting this.

  • M
    January 15th, 2009

    Gorgeous textures, thanks for the list!

  • matthew
    January 15th, 2009

    My urban textures. Someone may like them here
    http://lostbrooklyn.org/texture_gallery/

  • guido
    January 15th, 2009

    Great. They are all fantastic.

    http://www.icositetrahedron.com

  • Lucidles
    January 15th, 2009

    You’ll get nothing but praise from me. Wonderful designs.

    Les

  • Fedeweb
    January 15th, 2009

    Wow great list!! there are two links error..
    Vintage Wall Paper Texture and Grunge Wallpaper 2 are wrong..sorry for my bad English..

  • Logo Factory Design Studio
    January 16th, 2009

    Outstanding textures and backgrounds. There’s a dew that remind me of the wallpapers in my Grandma’s house. A very long time ago…

  • Kacey
    January 17th, 2009

    Wow, these are FANTASTIC! Thank you so much, just what I was looking for!

  • mel
    January 17th, 2009

    Nice collection – though some more convincing than others! I have a ‘vintage scratch’ high res brush set free on my blog for creating these sorts of effects. Its here: http://www.melsbrushes.co.uk/?p=207

  • Lindsay Bein
    January 17th, 2009

    If you like these patterns I just did a project with seamless patterns in a 2d class. Here are the steps…

    -draw a macro picture of an intense object with a lot of parts. Make sure the project is in a perfect square

    - take thise project and reverse the colors.

    - take these two and expiriment with them in radial symmetry.. repetition is key.. and using photoshop it is easy to re-create your favorite things!

    The brainstorming for my final project is posted as my website.. it isn’t vintage but using that idea try it yourself!

  • Linda
    January 18th, 2009

    These are really nice… thank you!

    Linda from http://cookingtipoftheday.blogspot.com/

  • Paul
    January 18th, 2009

    Some really nice textures there. I will try and incorporate these into my next project. I have spent a little bit of time getting into textures recently with my new site http://prandall.com – it is the first site where I have really used something other than a gradient.

    It was Jason Beaird’s book The Principles of Beautiful Web Design that really sold to me the importance of textures to a website.

  • Timothy
    January 21st, 2009

    I’m liking the vintage polka dots :)

  • Martin Lewis
    January 22nd, 2009

    Cheers. I’ll def be using some of these.

  • When will it end?
    January 22nd, 2009

    When will this obsession with “vintage” background design die out?! I for one don’t want my website to look like my bathroom’s old, mildewy wallpaper. Let’s just let another handful of crappy bands use this as their MySpace backdrop and call it done. Sound good everyone??

  • E.J. Semeijn
    January 23rd, 2009

    I like the pictures and I also think it’s time to move on to the next design trend. I’ve had it with the grunge stuff.

  • Haider Raza
    January 24th, 2009

    good textures ….. like the Use This 52

  • Xfar
    January 24th, 2009

    Nice collection although I like more modern stuff

  • manoballs
    January 25th, 2009

    Hey! I like your site and the images are beautiful. i will use some of these texture to build on my future projects. Cheers

  • CrankyKid
    January 26th, 2009

    Killer textures.

    check out this other site I found.

    http://www.texturesnob.com/

  • Dominical Costa Rica
    January 28th, 2009

    Fantastic textures. I especially like the parchment ones and will use them a lot. Thanks for the hard work.

  • STILTEC
    January 30th, 2009

    Great Idea

  • Free Stuff
    February 1st, 2009

    Great textures, thanks for having it :-)

  • Katrina Costedio
    February 3rd, 2009

    Thanks so much. You are awesome.
    I am so glad I found you.

  • federico
    February 9th, 2009

    me encantan este tipo de texturas
    muchas gracias por compartirlas

  • Nebojsa
    February 9th, 2009

    Once more I am stunned. Will use some of these for sure.

  • avel
    February 18th, 2009

    wow, cool, thanks!!!
    great resources for photoshop…

  • gilson
    February 19th, 2009

    very beatfuul! As texturas maravilhosas, me retornaram ao passado remoto!
    Gilson Tankiu!

  • fowlerok
    February 20th, 2009

    I would love to find someone to use these to design me a simple tiny site for my show pug dogs???? Anyone?
    I love vintage….. Never gets old…. just where we all come from;-)

  • Lubo
    March 24th, 2009

    Ohhh, thats lovely!

  • sam_khrap
    March 29th, 2009

    excellent collection ! I really love it

  • j
    March 29th, 2009

    What a wonderful collection!!

  • zillionliu
    April 14th, 2009

    classtic pic for backgroud image!

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  • patrick james
    May 14th, 2009

    Wow. An absolutely wonderful collection! Many thanks! :)

  • birgit meyke
    May 21st, 2009

    GREAT & soooooo BEAUTIFUL, I choose number 95 fpr a headpic in my website and say: ThanXXL

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