30 Most Incredible Textures for Vintage Style Design

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87 Comments

1. Raymond Selda January 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM Reply

   These are really nice. Thank you

2. Ondrej Vertat January 14, 2009 at 12:44 PM Reply

   Amazing collection, thanks!

3. Niki Brown | The Design O'Blog January 14, 2009 at 1:07 PM Reply

   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!

4. Chris W. January 14, 2009 at 1:13 PM Reply

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

5. Derek January 14, 2009 at 1:13 PM Reply

   Beautiful list. Thanks for sharing.

6. Zak | Integrated New Media January 14, 2009 at 1:35 PM Reply

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

7. Adelle January 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM Reply

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

8. Richard Andersson January 14, 2009 at 2:15 PM Reply

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

   Thanks!

9. Aaron Irizarry January 14, 2009 at 2:16 PM Reply

   Wow! these are beautiful. Thanks for posting them

   ~ Aaron I

10. David Perel January 14, 2009 at 2:30 PM Reply

    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.

11. Henry January 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM Reply

    @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.

12. Chowder January 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM Reply

    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

13. azdaja January 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM Reply

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

14. Vin Thomas January 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM Reply

    AWESOME LIST!

15. Dainis Graveris January 14, 2009 at 6:29 PM Reply

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

16. andrew January 14, 2009 at 8:07 PM Reply

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

17. Eneza January 14, 2009 at 8:44 PM Reply

    Check out those ancient beauty. Great Collection.

18. projectautomatika January 14, 2009 at 10:09 PM Reply

    amazing textures! thanks!

19. Nathan Hangen January 15, 2009 at 12:13 AM Reply

    Incredible collection. Thanks.

20. iris January 15, 2009 at 5:00 AM Reply

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

21. highgirl January 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM Reply

    amazing textures! thanks!

22. kim min January 15, 2009 at 6:26 AM Reply

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

23. Lukes January 15, 2009 at 6:53 AM Reply

    Wow , great stuff. Tweeted

24. Jo January 15, 2009 at 7:20 AM Reply

    Beautiful textures, will definitely come in handy

25. Patternhead January 15, 2009 at 7:55 AM Reply

    Love those vintage patterns. Thanks for sharing 🙂

26. Mr.Jade Cadelina January 15, 2009 at 7:59 AM Reply

    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… 🙂

27. Sineload January 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM Reply

    These textures are great. Thanks for posting this.

28. M January 15, 2009 at 3:14 PM Reply

    Gorgeous textures, thanks for the list!

29. matthew January 15, 2009 at 3:46 PM Reply

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

30. guido January 15, 2009 at 5:28 PM Reply

    Great. They are all fantastic.

    http://www.icositetrahedron.com

31. Lucidles January 15, 2009 at 5:38 PM Reply

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

    Les

32. Fedeweb January 15, 2009 at 5:39 PM Reply

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

33. Logo Factory Design Studio January 16, 2009 at 7:27 PM Reply

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

34. Kacey January 17, 2009 at 4:44 AM Reply

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

35. mel January 17, 2009 at 6:22 AM Reply

    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: https://www.melsbrushes.co.uk/?p=207

36. Lindsay Bein January 17, 2009 at 9:33 PM Reply

    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!

37. Linda January 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM Reply

    These are really nice… thank you!

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

38. Paul January 18, 2009 at 2:53 PM Reply

    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 https://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.

39. Timothy January 21, 2009 at 4:52 PM Reply

    I’m liking the vintage polka dots 🙂

40. Martin Lewis January 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM Reply

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

41. When will it end? January 22, 2009 at 4:48 PM Reply

    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??

42. E.J. Semeijn January 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM Reply

    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.

43. Haider Raza January 24, 2009 at 2:09 AM Reply

    good textures ….. like the Use This 52

44. Xfar January 24, 2009 at 8:37 PM Reply

    Nice collection although I like more modern stuff

45. manoballs January 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM Reply

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

46. CrankyKid January 26, 2009 at 6:25 PM Reply

    Killer textures.

    check out this other site I found.

    https://www.texturesnob.com/

47. Dominical Costa Rica January 28, 2009 at 3:52 PM Reply

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

48. STILTEC January 30, 2009 at 7:28 PM Reply

    Great Idea

49. Free Stuff February 1, 2009 at 8:28 AM Reply

    Great textures, thanks for having it 🙂

50. Katrina Costedio February 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM Reply

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

51. federico February 9, 2009 at 5:30 PM Reply

    me encantan este tipo de texturas
    muchas gracias por compartirlas

52. Nebojsa February 9, 2009 at 7:13 PM Reply

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

53. avel February 18, 2009 at 3:39 AM Reply

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

54. gilson February 19, 2009 at 3:42 PM Reply

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

55. fowlerok February 20, 2009 at 9:53 AM Reply

    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;-)

    1. steve tracy May 20, 2010 at 4:56 PM Reply

       Ever get your website up and running?

56. Lubo March 24, 2009 at 5:44 AM Reply

    Ohhh, thats lovely!

57. sam_khrap March 29, 2009 at 4:56 AM Reply

    excellent collection ! I really love it

58. j March 29, 2009 at 1:05 PM Reply

    What a wonderful collection!!

59. zillionliu April 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM Reply

    classtic pic for backgroud image!

60. patrick james May 14, 2009 at 5:38 PM Reply

    Wow. An absolutely wonderful collection! Many thanks! 🙂

61. birgit meyke May 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM Reply

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

62. alexandra July 15, 2009 at 6:33 PM Reply

    Preciosas texturas…muy muy lindas!

63. Nigel Lamb July 16, 2009 at 3:58 AM Reply

    Great selection. I really like the lighting effects used on them, really brings them to live and gives them a more contemporary feel. Cheers!

64. Rian August 2, 2009 at 4:24 PM Reply

    From the Netherlands ;
    Thanks !! these are realy FANTASTIC !!

65. Personal finance blog August 6, 2009 at 10:01 PM Reply

    Great resource and free. Thank you

66. aldo August 10, 2009 at 9:07 PM Reply

    excelentes fondos.
    zaludoz

67. pachuvachuva October 5, 2009 at 9:49 PM Reply

    Amazing. Simply amazing. Thanks for these. ^_^

68. rebecca hyde October 17, 2009 at 7:43 AM Reply

    Love these textures. x

69. John November 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM Reply

    Quite a few of the links don’t work!

    Shame!!

70. J November 7, 2009 at 7:46 AM Reply

    nice!thanks~

71. Lola Duende December 9, 2009 at 1:15 PM Reply

    Beautiful textures!!! 😉

72. Alexandrae January 7, 2010 at 5:04 AM Reply

    These are really nice texture…Nice collection

73. gottalovethefreestuff January 12, 2010 at 4:32 PM Reply

    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!!!

74. Yayu January 14, 2010 at 12:49 AM Reply

    ..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..

75. afino January 20, 2010 at 1:18 AM Reply

    Beauty 95 so cool! Thanks

76. Infographiste February 3, 2010 at 2:00 PM Reply

    Awesome list, my fav one is the “vintage strip” texture. Thanks for sharing

77. TwitterBackgrounds July 23, 2010 at 10:00 AM Reply

    All these textures are fantastic and inspiring.

78. aubrey August 11, 2010 at 9:59 AM Reply

    super like it 🙂

79. sami May 22, 2011 at 6:44 PM Reply

    thanksssss

80. giselle June 8, 2011 at 3:34 PM Reply

    Love them!

81. Buburu Resources June 27, 2011 at 7:24 AM Reply

    I love grunge and vintage style! I have a Free Set of 52 Grunge brushes here – https://bubururesources.info/?p=478 which can help creating these effects.

82. Alicia September 7, 2011 at 4:21 AM Reply

    These are pretty cool. Thanks!

83. soso December 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM Reply

    Thanks these are realy FANTASTIC

84. mangeshi March 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM Reply

    These are really nice texture…Nice collection

85. john May 10, 2012 at 4:30 AM Reply

    Nice textures, thank you for sharing. I would like to add at this collection another set of free vintage textures check here: https://www.creattor.com/textures-patterns/vintage-grunge-papers-textures-pack-3770

86. eyzhel May 15, 2012 at 5:35 AM Reply

    Nice collections!
    Here’s mine:
    https://eyzhel.tumblr.com/post/23096565455/vintage-textures

    🙂