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
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Feb 9, 2009
me encantan este tipo de texturas
muchas gracias por compartirlas
Feb 9, 2009
Once more I am stunned. Will use some of these for sure.
Feb 18, 2009
wow, cool, thanks!!!
great resources for photoshop…
Feb 19, 2009
very beatfuul! As texturas maravilhosas, me retornaram ao passado remoto!
Gilson Tankiu!
Feb 20, 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;-)
Mar 24, 2009
Ohhh, thats lovely!
Mar 29, 2009
excellent collection ! I really love it
Mar 29, 2009
What a wonderful collection!!
Apr 14, 2009
classtic pic for backgroud image!
[...] you’ve probably figured out, I love designing with texture. I also love sharing textures here on WDL. When done properly, a texture used as a background can add depth and set the over all [...]
May 14, 2009
Wow. An absolutely wonderful collection! Many thanks!
May 21, 2009
GREAT & soooooo BEAUTIFUL, I choose number 95 fpr a headpic in my website and say: ThanXXL
[...] on WDL, I’ve shown you where to find plenty of amazing free textures, and we’ve given you some exclusive textures as well. Now that you have access to all these [...]
Jul 15, 2009
Preciosas texturas…muy muy lindas!
Jul 16, 2009
Great selection. I really like the lighting effects used on them, really brings them to live and gives them a more contemporary feel. Cheers!
Aug 2, 2009
From the Netherlands ;
Thanks !! these are realy FANTASTIC !!
Aug 6, 2009
Great resource and free. Thank you
Aug 10, 2009
excelentes fondos.
zaludoz
[...] past articles, we’ve shown you where to find plenty of great textures for vintage and retro style design. So now if you’re wanting to learn some techniques to put [...]
Oct 5, 2009
Amazing. Simply amazing. Thanks for these. ^_^
Oct 17, 2009
Love these textures. x
Nov 2, 2009
Quite a few of the links don’t work!
Shame!!
Nov 7, 2009
nice!thanks~
Dec 9, 2009
Beautiful textures!!!
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Jan 7, 2010
These are really nice texture…Nice collection
Jan 12, 2010
i 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!!!
Jan 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..
Jan 20, 2010
Beauty 95 so cool! Thanks
Feb 3, 2010
Awesome list, my fav one is the “vintage strip” texture. Thanks for sharing