Textures are one of the most important element in a design. You can create different touch or different look on the same web layout design template for instance, simply by adding different textures.

Callum Chapman, a graphic designer and illustrator based in Royston and Cambridge, UK shares you 10 high resolution fabric textures on his blog. Each of them has different colors and these are completely free for personal and commercial projects.

The texture set would be useful to use for web layout background, or any design project that needs large size of texture to make it brilliant. Set a bit of layer transparency or make sure you put enough color contrast for the object in front of the fabric texture, then just see what magic brings you in the end :) These free fabric textures are created in high resolution. It means, you have almost unlimited options to come out with creative ideas using these textures.

URL: http://blog.callumchapman.com/2009/resources/10-high-res-fabric-textures/

Here comes a great set of packaging texture freebie pack by by Callum Chapman of circleboxtextures.com. The set includes 6 high resolution packaging paper textures stained with blue and blank ink. Callum produced these awesome effect in long step of craftsmanship process. Each of the paper went through several different processes to get the right effect.

These Ink Stained Packaging Paper textures are absolutely free to use for personal and commercial design projects!

URL:
http://circleboxtextures.com/2009/paper-card/6-ink-stained-packaging-paper-textures/

highresolutiontextures.com gives your 6 free wood textures in high resolution. If you work on design project that requires you to create nature theme or simply need large background for design element, this texture set collection is absolutely the perfect choice. This pack includes 6 high resolution images of various & colorful sorts of wood or bark. Each of the texture size is up to 3800 x 2500 pixels (7Mb) in average.
Grab these 6 wood textures for free or bookmark for future refference, thank you!

URL: http://www.highresolutiontextures.com/6-hi-res-wood-textures

PSD Fans just featured some paint textures to download for free with an attribution license. These textures were designed by Andre Oliveira, a talented photographer and artist. They are available in high resolution (3000 x 4000px) and it will be great as decorative elements on your design projects.

5 HDR in a set (19.37 MB) that includes: Blue paint, Stain paint, Texture paint, Colorful paint and Mess paint. Visit the source page if you want to view these cool HDR paint textures or save it for future usage if you like ;)

Today’s texture review is an interesting freebies from ThinkDesignBlog.com which has released a colorful motion band textures pack.

The set has beautifully compiled 20+ bright color motion band textures and you can see the motion in each texture as you’ll soon notice the one way directional blur FX in it.

Grab this Motion Color Band Textures freebie package in 39 Mb file size, and just put credit or comment to the source page if you like.

Caleb, the author of lostandtaken.com took snaps on many of tree branches and handpicked the best 8 images to be set in a zip package file. These textures give natural senses as they have artistic subtle branches. They would have been easy to be converted into brushes or vectors since they have perfect black and white contrast. No doubt in the quality, because all of them are available in high resolution inside the 30.5MB zipped file.

These Black and White Tree Branches Textures will be very useful to create background overlay object on your graphic design. Have a quick jump to dowload for free of these amazing textures ;)

Do you know what Chiyogami is? Chiyogami is a hightly decorative type of printer paper used for craft purposes. Snap2Objects.com compiled a group of best 21 Chiyogami seamless textures from Flickr. A tasteful of Japanese style for your inspiration. They are flourish and fancy if you like to put one of them as web background in related themes, for examples: teenage website, personal blog, or Japanese style of course :p

Take a look this gorgeous collection now and don’t forget to check the license and attribution for each texture before you decide to download guys!

Get tired of browsing for new textures that you need? Perhaps texturez.com will help you out :) This website renders free high resolution texture photos for you! Here is a quick hint of texture categories listed. They are:

* Brick Textures
* Concrete Textures
* Fabric Textures
* Food Textures
* Glass Textures
* Ground Textures
* Grunge Textures
* Metal Textures
* Paint Textures
* Plants Textures
* Plaster Textures
* Plastic Textures
* Rust Textures
* Stone Textures
* Wood Textures

Texturez.com is a great freebies web resource to visit if you need more high quality textures for your design today. Have a moment to save this article for future need if you like! :)