Textures/Patterns

http://speckyboy.com/2008/01/19/top-10-free-resources-for-background-patterns-and-textures-for-web-designers/

Quite often we stumble on to a blog that looks bland, in dire need of some color, a little bit of character, these sites maybe aren’t very familiar with blog design, let alone CSS. The simplest way to freshen up a site is with a new theme or to do a little CSS tweaking with your current theme. You could be surprised with the results. In this article I will show you the best resources for backgrounds and textures. For those of you who aren’t familiar with CSS, here is a brief tutorial on how to change your themes background: 1.

Top 10 Free Resources for Background Patterns and Textures for Web Designers | Speckyboy Design Magazine

http://www.designshard.com/freebies/ultimate-source-for-tiled-background-patterns/

Repeating background patterns and images, patterns such as these can be used for a host of things such as a web page backgrounds, or adding that extra detail to a containing block, adjust the visibility and you’ve got a great new look for some thing that would normally look quite plain. Here you’ll find some tutorials on how to create your own patterns and some resources to download patterns. Download Patterns Below are a few sites that have huge collections of background patterns for you to download and use for free. Brusheezy Patterns

background patterns and tiled background patterns

Free 3ds Textures

Amazing Textures - High resolution textures for 3D modelling

AmazingTextures.com is one of the biggest and most popular dedicated online texture libraries in the world. Established in 2004, we have thousands of professionals using our texture library every day. We are constantly adding to the library, creating new textures that will save you time and bring your 3D scenes to life. Most of our textures are tiling, and all of them are 100% original - you won't find our textures anywhere else. Download our free samples to check out the quality of our textures, or register for your free account to download up to 20mb of textures every day - for free! For just $30 per year you can access the full library of textures and download up to 50mb per day, or you can upgrade to a PRO subscription and pay a small annual fee to have access to all the textures and up to 200mb per day.