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Free paper textures and backgrounds

Free paper, wood, stone and fabric textures and backgrounds for designs, slides and web pages, from open collections, with sizes and licence verdicts.

Images
14 images
Sources
from 1 source
1080 px or larger
13 at 1080 px or larger
Cleared for commercial use
13 cleared for commercial use
Direct downloads
14 with direct download
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Picked automatically from a live search of 33 sites and refreshed daily. Thumbnails load straight from the source, never through this site. Each image belongs to its creator: check its licence on the source page before you publish.

Surfaces for design

Texture adds warmth to flat design: aged paper behind a recipe, a wood grain under a product shot, linen behind a wedding invitation, concrete behind a tech headline. These pages collect photographed textures and backgrounds from Wikimedia Commons and Openverse.

Using them

Lower the contrast or blend the texture with a colour so text stays readable. For repeating patterns, check whether the image tiles seamlessly, or mirror it at the edges. Download a size that matches the area: a small texture stretched across a 4K screen looks soft.

For 3D work, physically based material sets with normal and roughness maps are on the sister site 3d.shep.bot.

Questions

What resolution should a background texture be?
At least as large as the area it fills: about 1920 pixels wide for a full-width web section, more for print. Seamless textures can be tiled at a smaller size.
Are 3D material textures here too?
PBR textures for 3D (with normal and roughness maps) are on 3d.shep.bot, the sister site for 3D assets.

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