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
+texture
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
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87 comments
federico
February 9, 2009me encantan este tipo de texturas
muchas gracias por compartirlas
Nebojsa
February 9, 2009Once more I am stunned. Will use some of these for sure.
avel
February 18, 2009wow, cool, thanks!!!
great resources for photoshop…
gilson
February 19, 2009very beatfuul! As texturas maravilhosas, me retornaram ao passado remoto!
Gilson Tankiu!
fowlerok
February 20, 2009I 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;-)
steve tracy
May 20, 2010Ever get your website up and running?
Lubo
March 24, 2009Ohhh, thats lovely!
sam_khrap
March 29, 2009excellent collection ! I really love it
j
March 29, 2009What a wonderful collection!!
zillionliu
April 14, 2009classtic pic for backgroud image!
patrick james
May 14, 2009Wow. An absolutely wonderful collection! Many thanks!
birgit meyke
May 21, 2009GREAT & soooooo BEAUTIFUL, I choose number 95 fpr a headpic in my website and say: ThanXXL
alexandra
July 15, 2009Preciosas texturas…muy muy lindas!
Nigel Lamb
July 16, 2009Great selection. I really like the lighting effects used on them, really brings them to live and gives them a more contemporary feel. Cheers!
Rian
August 2, 2009From the Netherlands ;
Thanks !! these are realy FANTASTIC !!
Personal finance blog
August 6, 2009Great resource and free. Thank you
aldo
August 10, 2009excelentes fondos.
zaludoz
pachuvachuva
October 5, 2009Amazing. Simply amazing. Thanks for these. ^_^
rebecca hyde
October 17, 2009Love these textures. x
John
November 2, 2009Quite a few of the links don’t work!
Shame!!
J
November 7, 2009nice!thanks~
Lola Duende
December 9, 2009Beautiful textures!!!
Alexandrae
January 7, 2010These are really nice texture…Nice collection
gottalovethefreestuff
January 12, 2010i know these have been up for a year now, but I wanted to let you know that 99% of the links are bad – getting 404 error.
Thank you so much for your eforts! You rock!!!
Yayu
January 14, 2010..i just want to say thanks +++ for your xcellent compilation of these vintage textures..amazing and great..waking me up to xplore the ideas more n more..
afino
January 20, 2010Beauty 95 so cool! Thanks
Infographiste
February 3, 2010Awesome list, my fav one is the “vintage strip” texture. Thanks for sharing
TwitterBackgrounds
July 23, 2010All these textures are fantastic and inspiring.
aubrey
August 11, 2010super like it
sami
May 22, 2011thanksssss
giselle
June 8, 2011Love them!
Buburu Resources
June 27, 2011I love grunge and vintage style! I have a Free Set of 52 Grunge brushes here – http://bubururesources.info/?p=478 which can help creating these effects.
Alicia
September 7, 2011These are pretty cool. Thanks!
soso
December 25, 2011Thanks these are realy FANTASTIC
mangeshi
March 24, 2012These are really nice texture…Nice collection
john
May 10, 2012Nice textures, thank you for sharing. I would like to add at this collection another set of free vintage textures check here: http://www.creattor.com/textures-patterns/vintage-grunge-papers-textures-pack-3770
eyzhel
May 15, 2012Nice collections!
Here’s mine:
http://eyzhel.tumblr.com/post/23096565455/vintage-textures
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