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
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Vintage Musk
Vintage V
Simple Vintage
vintage strip texture
Vintage Grunge
map texture 1
Vintage IV
Victorian grunge V
vintage polka dot texture
Victorian grunge IV
Vintage Musk 3
Grunge Wallpaper 1
Use This 52
Beauty 96
Beauty 95
Vintage Texture II
Art Nouveau Pattern Texture
Antique Script Texture
music texture 4
vintage diamonds
Vintage II
Vintage XV
Vintage XVII
Vintage Wall Paper Texture
Grunge Wallpaper 2
Cracked Wallpaper
Victorian Wallpaper
Vintage XII
January 14th, 2009
These are really nice. Thank you
January 14th, 2009
Amazing collection, thanks!
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!
January 14th, 2009
I am always looking for good free seamless patterns. Those are often quite a bit more useful. But good post overall.
January 14th, 2009
Beautiful list. Thanks for sharing.
January 14th, 2009
pretty amazing list! always love when someone else can do the hard work and find great textures!
January 14th, 2009
These are beautiful, love this collection. I see some site enhancements as well since last time I checked…looking amazing Henry!
January 14th, 2009
Nice! I like the roccoco textures the best. They look very authentic!
Thanks!
January 14th, 2009
Wow! these are beautiful. Thanks for posting them
~ Aaron I
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.
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.
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
January 14th, 2009
these are gorgeous! I am definitely taking a few. These are worth figuring out how to use textures!
January 14th, 2009
AWESOME LIST!
January 14th, 2009
very useful textures!! this kind of resource is really rare, appreciated list!
January 14th, 2009
great list. Polka dot pic is not linked to the correct URL. Please fix, thanks!
January 14th, 2009
Check out those ancient beauty. Great Collection.
January 14th, 2009
amazing textures! thanks!
January 15th, 2009
Incredible collection. Thanks.
January 15th, 2009
hello !
I’m korean…..
photoshop에 쓸게요…
(korea 말로 해서 sorry)
January 15th, 2009
amazing textures! thanks!
January 15th, 2009
goooooooooooood ~!
from. south korea..
http://www.cyworld.com/01024690804
January 15th, 2009
Wow , great stuff. Tweeted
January 15th, 2009
Beautiful textures, will definitely come in handy
January 15th, 2009
Love those vintage patterns. Thanks for sharing
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…
January 15th, 2009
These textures are great. Thanks for posting this.
January 15th, 2009
Gorgeous textures, thanks for the list!
January 15th, 2009
My urban textures. Someone may like them here
http://lostbrooklyn.org/texture_gallery/
January 15th, 2009
Great. They are all fantastic.
http://www.icositetrahedron.com
January 15th, 2009
You’ll get nothing but praise from me. Wonderful designs.
Les
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..
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…
January 17th, 2009
Wow, these are FANTASTIC! Thank you so much, just what I was looking for!
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
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!
January 18th, 2009
These are really nice… thank you!
Linda from http://cookingtipoftheday.blogspot.com/
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.
January 21st, 2009
I’m liking the vintage polka dots
January 22nd, 2009
Cheers. I’ll def be using some of these.
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??
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.
January 24th, 2009
good textures ….. like the Use This 52
January 24th, 2009
Nice collection although I like more modern stuff
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
January 26th, 2009
Killer textures.
check out this other site I found.
http://www.texturesnob.com/
January 28th, 2009
Fantastic textures. I especially like the parchment ones and will use them a lot. Thanks for the hard work.
January 30th, 2009
Great Idea
February 1st, 2009
Great textures, thanks for having it
February 3rd, 2009
Thanks so much. You are awesome.
I am so glad I found you.
February 9th, 2009
me encantan este tipo de texturas
muchas gracias por compartirlas
February 9th, 2009
Once more I am stunned. Will use some of these for sure.
February 18th, 2009
wow, cool, thanks!!!
great resources for photoshop…
February 19th, 2009
very beatfuul! As texturas maravilhosas, me retornaram ao passado remoto!
Gilson Tankiu!
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;-)
March 24th, 2009
Ohhh, thats lovely!
March 29th, 2009
excellent collection ! I really love it
March 29th, 2009
What a wonderful collection!!
April 14th, 2009
classtic pic for backgroud image!
May 12th, 2009
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May 14th, 2009
Wow. An absolutely wonderful collection! Many thanks!
May 21st, 2009
GREAT & soooooo BEAUTIFUL, I choose number 95 fpr a headpic in my website and say: ThanXXL
June 25th, 2009
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