From time to time we all need a little texture and pattern goodness in our designs and keeping a toolbox of resources is a great way to stay proficient as designers. Over the past year I’ve been keeping a collection of my favorite texture and pattern resources and collections — and who else better to share them with than all of you.
The next time you need that Bokeh or watercolor textures, among others, you will know where to reach for your tools with little effort in finding them.
RESOURCES
TextureKing
Texture Lovers
Lost and Taken
BittBox freebies
Design Spice
Squidfingers
HighResolutionTextures.com
ava7 patterns
milleseicentopercento
Seamless Tiles
COLLECTIONS
50+ random textures
Random Photoshop Patterns
100 Beautiful Textures
XRay Textures
60+ Concrete Textures
50 Fabric Textures
40 Ornate Patterns
Paper Textures
Spray Paint Textures
21 Eye catchy textures
80+ Fresh textures for your website
Water color textures
450+ Adobe Illustrator Patterns
50 Rusted Metal Textures
155+ Bokeh textures
MORE MOTHERLOAD COLLECTIONS:
» The Motherload Collection of Inspirational Website Galleries
» 600+ Free Design, Twitter and Social Media Icons: A Collection Motherload
Wicked collection! Definitely going to hit these sites up. Thanks Brian!
Cool. I needed some new textures to match a typeset I’m working with.
Dugg, for extra timeliness
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Retweeted, for extra coolness
wicked! what a collection! Thanks for sharing
Hey, thanks for including my paper textures article.
Wow, very nice collection thanks for the share.
Great collection!
you might be interested in our gallery of patterns created by users of Repper. Over 65.000 patterns already. All CC-licenced.
http://repper.studioludens.com/gallery.html
great article, nice
This list of sites offering of textures and patterns is very nice and complete. There are several that I do not know, thank you:)
Thanks for the textures. These always come in handy
great collection Brian, thanks for pulling it all together!
Great collection.
Here http://www.photovaco.com/category/14 you can download textures for both personal and commercial works too.
This is a fantastic collection of texture resources. Really appreciate your sharing!
I like these textures. tell me, did you create these digitally or scan them?
Great list, I’ve been so used to creating minimalist sites that I nearly forgot textures existed. Another good idea if you have a little bit of time on your hands is just go out and shoot a few images yourself for that unique feel.
Instant Shift is another good website, they did a list on http://www.instantshift.com/2009/03/28/the-ultimate-list-of-sources-for-free-background-patterns/ Hope this helps your fans too.
thanks for listing my site
Great collection, good textures are always essential!! Loving the watercolour ones! Cheers.