Design Resources : 6 Texture and Pattern Websites

By Jennifer | May 23 2007

texturethumbI’ve been looking for some background textures for another website I’m working on. I was initially thinking of a wood type background but then changed my mind and decided to go for a stone texture instead. There are loads of textures and pattern sites out there and on my web travels I came across a few good sites that really came up with the goods in terms of textures and patterns and were well above average. I thought you may find them useful too. Please let me know of other good texture sites you use.

imageafterImage*After is a biggie and I think it’s been around for a long time. I remember seeing it a couple of years ago but had forgotten about it. This has photographs of everything under the sun as well as specific textures.

44suburbia
44 Suburbia is great too. The site itself has a nice retro feel and the textures are a nice mixture of grungy and old paint styles (amongst others).

schizoolicious
Schizoolicious is a german site (well it’s written in German) and it seems to be filled with patterns uploaded by several different designers. They range from very subtle to mad-in-your-face stuff.

Citrus moon
Citrus Moon is a blog with new patterns set up almost daily. They have a lot of tiles suitable for backgrounds.

squidfingersSquidfingers site has over 150 tiles which make up nice backgrounds. Again they range from the subtle to “must wear sunglasses” style.

texture libraryTexture Library is another site chock full of natural textures like wood, stone and fur. The quality is excellent, the only downside is that the images tend to be a bit small. Still a great resource though.

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3 Responses to “Design Resources : 6 Texture and Pattern Websites”

  1. paul on May 24th, 2007 8:31 am

    Again a nice collection of links !
    Just one question say I wanted to have some backgrounds like this or a metal cross-hatched pattern like this.

    Is it a brush effect I would need to use ?

  2. jennyrusks on May 24th, 2007 3:21 pm

    Hi Paul
    To make a background with the metal cross-hatch pattern you would need to make a tile (by cropping that image) in such a way that the left side of the image matches up perfectly with the right side of the image and also the top side would match up with the bottom. Otherwise it won’t tile seamlessly and you’d end up with a horrible line inbetween the tiles. There is a big version of that metal cross-hatch on this website http://mayang.com/textures/Metal/html/Patterned%20Metal/index.html
    Jennifer

  3. paul on May 25th, 2007 7:52 am

    Nice link once again Jennifer ! Thanks. I’ll let you know how I get on at the weekend playing around with these. :D

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