2008: The Year of the Texture
2008 was a big year for textures. Never before has there been such a vast amount of high quality, free textures readily available to the design community. In typical end-of-year fashion, I thought I would do a massive round-up of some of the best texture resources to come out in 2008, including websites, blog posts, and everything else texture related. Enjoy the list and here's to 2009!
***If you have any links that I didn't cover please share them in the comments.
Texture Websites
HighResolutionTextures.com 
highresolutiontextures.com is foremost meant as a resource website for everybody that loves high quality textures and patterns or for designers and artists that are using textures in their creations
Texturise.com 
Texturise is a blog-style website focused on giving away high-res textures for personal and commercial use.
Stockimagine
Stockimagine is an ever-growing collection of copyright-free texture photos and stock photos! Feel free to use them anywhere, anyhow, for anything. Personal, commercial, whatever.
Lostandtaken.com
Last (and I hope not least) is the site your browser is currently directed towards: L+T. We give away textures here, if you didn't already know that ;)
Blog Posts
60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds
Cardboard Textures and Objects: High Resolution Pack
30 Great Free Paper Backgrounds and Textures
Free High Res Grungy Paper Textures
Free High Resolution Plain and Grunge Paper Textures
28 High Resolution Wood Textures For Designers 
200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup
Free Textures - 20+ Motion Color Band Textures
300+ Free Hi-Res grunge textures you’ve never seen before!
5 Fantastically Free High Res Brown Paper Textures
35 Free Hi-Res Fire, Flame and Firework Textures
Freebies - Stone Textures Pack 1
20 Fabric Textures to Dress Up your Design
10 Super High-Res Wood Textures
17 More Old Book Cover Textures
Out of Focus: 30 Free Bokeh Textures
Free High-Res Texture Pack: The Anatomy of a *Really* Old Book
Other Resources
Vintage Grunge Textures by Princess-of-Shadows
Rust Textures by Princess-of-Shadows
7 XL grunge textures by isleofyew
Textures: Muted by AmandaClayton
Color Grunge Textures by Princess-of-Shadows
And That wraps it up folks! Once again, if you have any links to share that I didn't cover in the post feel free to share them in the comments.
Caleb Kimbrough
Reader Comments (10)
Nice collection of textures for 2008, always very useful, and thanks for including both my texture packs.
many thanks for including my blog in such a prominent position! much appreciated, Caleb! keep up the good work!
Thanks for this post - I love seeing what everyone has to offer. Also thanks so much for including my website!
Cool list! Gotta love textures :) Found some cool stuff on this list I'd never seen before. And I really appreciate ya featuring one of my texture packs!
Nice collection!
Another great collecion, (more than 20 texture sites) is listed at http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm
Hi Caleb,
Thanks for including my website (Texturise.com). Your site has some of the highest quality textures around.
Wow, extremely impressive post showing extremely impressive textures.
Thanks for compiling.
Apsolutly fantastic post. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Some great textures
Nice resource! Thank you very much!
Here is a website with lots of free textures that is not in your list:
http://www.3dmd.net/gallery/index-2.html
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