6 Resources for Free Stock Textures

Posted on October 30, 2015

The best sites to get free stock textures

Subtle Patterns

Subtle Patterns was created and curated by Atle Mo, with the goal of providing high quality tilable texture patterns for free. Stylish presentation, unique brand design, and beautiful website come together to present an array of unique soft patterns with modern and classic looks.

Texturer

Texturer is a typical source of free textures for all kinds of work, from 3D models to graphic design. Search using keywords or a variety of categories ranging from ground, to weapons, to doors and buildings. All textures can be used for commercial or personal use, "as is."

Texture King

Texture King offers free textures for the creative user. The asortment of textures includes raw styles like wood, dirt/sand, and concrete. This niche texture site is made specially for people looking for closeups, macro image textures from the real world.

Transparent Textures

Transparent Textures follows suit of Subtle Patterns, offering highly customizable free patterns. First you use the color picker, which then changes the background color of the whole site - effecting the transparent patterns, click on the pattern you like and the site background adopts it for you to see, finally you copy the CSS, and you're done!

Freebies Gallery

Freebies Gallery offers creative resource material for professional and personal use, for free. Specifically, it has 3 pages of beautifully designed backgrounds for download. Filled with fine content catering to an audience who wants to see useful, relevant, and modern concepts. Made possible by the work of Asif Aleem.

Patternico

Patternico provides a tool for easily creating free patterns using a variety of fonts, icons, and other materials. Highly customizable, no non-sense approach through an interactive background interface. Apply and see changes instantly with their embeded site features allowing immense creative liberty.

Pixeden

Pixeden also offers a selection of beautiful backgrounds for free. Subtle, clean designs are available for both professional and personal use. Themes are mainly plain abstract concepts, using a spectrum of color variety and styles. These premium graphic, design, and web resources are beautifully crafted and have been downloaded more than 24,000,000 times.