5 Free Vintage Wallpaper Textures
Update: Vintage Damask Textures: Part II is up now! Check it out if you like the textures below.
This is a set of textures I've wanted to do for a long, long time. Unfortunately I don't have access to any cool, old wallpaper around here...so I just had to make my own.
Each one of these textures consists of 4-5 different images layered together in Photoshop to get the end result you see here. I usually used one fabric texture, two paper textures, and a grunge texture along with the pattern to get the effect that I wanted. If you guys would like I can make a tutorial on the process that went into these textures. Let me know if you guys like them! I plan on making a much bigger set of these in the near future and would love some input on these first five.
Here are the patterns I used to make the textures:
Click on the textures below to download the high-res version or download them all in a zip file at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!
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Reader Comments (103)
great! more! more wallpaper, even without the deterioration.
These are great wallpaper textures! I love the combination vintage and grunge look. A tutorial would be quite useful for designers who don't have much experience creating patterns and want to see your grunge-ification process.
Thanks loads!!!
love, love, love damask. :)
I post a weekly homework assignment and I am going to use these for this week and send people over.
Hope it helps, thanks for all you do!
These are amazing - THANK YOU!
oh my goodness, these vintage wallpaper textures are AMAZING! thanks for another great resource!
Beautiful, thank you!
nice pattern. is it dirty wallpaper or it's part of the pattern? :)
Oooh I likey! Thank-you so much :)
I love these. I think you should make a Desktop wall paper for us to download out of it. Maybe put your lost and taken logo on it and call it a day. I am sure we would love to see a tutorial on how you did this. I love seeing other people processes they use with textures.
These are fabulous, and yes, I would love to see your tutorial. This is the kind of thing I like to make often but I love to read tutorials on aging, everyone has different takes on best ways to age!! I work with 300 dpi, and would totally love a tut!
Thanks!
I'd love to download this, but when I try to unarchive the .zip, I get the message, "Error 1 - Operation not permitted."
Can you please replace the zip file?
Wow these are pretty cool wallpapers. Almost like 3D renders.
I would love to see more of these. ;)
Bravo!
Bliss.
Great! A tutorial would be truly appreciated!
Very cool as always Caleb! I love these old Vintage Wallpaper textures, and these are some of the best I've seen. Great work.
These are great and I know just how I am going to use them! Thanks.
A thing of beauty! (or things of beauty)...they're all great! Thanks so much!
Thanks so much this is an awesome background collection.
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This is really wonderful work!!!!Thanks so much for sharing. Hope you never stop creating :)
Caleb,
These absolutely rock! Thanks! Sign me up for someone that'd love to see the tut. For sure!
One thing... I would LOVE to see some real wallpaper for these textures. At hires, you can still tell they were digitally created, but they are far and away better than any other damask stuff I've got. THANKS!
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TFS! A tutorial would be so helpful!!!
There are just lovely. I can't wait to use them. And a tutorial would be awesome :)
Amazing! I'll use 'em on my website. Thank you.
A tutorial ? Sure !