I’ve been experimenting with tea bags and water to create some custom grunge stained paper textures, I wanted to see how different they would be from water colours but there’s not a lot of difference to be fair, I am going to keep experimenting any way, so this is the first batch and hopefully the next batch can bring some more refinements.
These 20 textures are also at a high resolution to cover most working areas and are ideal to be edited, such as colour adjustmets and cropping
Dont forget to keep checking Texture Lovers for free textures.
See All The Textures On Flickr
You can see all the textures in the Flickr set before you download any of the files below or simply use them directly from Flickr, the choice is yours.
Rapidshare Download (26.8mb Zip File)
http://rapidshare.com/files/217853009/Grunge-Stained-Paper-Textures.zip
Mediafire Download (26.8mb Zip File)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jzdt3kjykxg/Grunge-Stained-Paper-Textures.zip
Additional info:
- Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ 18
- Quantity: 19 Images
- Resolution: 1600px x 2256px
- Contains: Grunge Stained Paper
Usage Terms
Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them.
A Closer Look
This image has had brightness and contrast adjusted.

SHOW ME WHAT YOU MAKE
Post a link in the comments to your work where youve used the textures, you dont have to but it would be nice to see them being used somewhere. Also let me know if you like them !














wow
Thank you very much
Thanks for sharing. I used it to combine with my own tea-stained illustration and make some prints… http://monster-gallery.blogspot.com/2009/05/beatles-print.html
–JoE
Wow, teabags! Who would’ve thought huh? Really nice looking textures, brilliant!
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Thanks a lot for your work. This site is really great.
I used one these textures combined it with a grunge texture (also one of a previous post) and made a new background design for my homepage. You can see it at http://www.overhang.at
I bet you will not identify which texture I have used. ;-)
Greetings from Vienna,
Chris
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These are fantastic! I made some paper for digital scrapbooking. ;D Here’s the link: http://jencropable.com/im-blushing/ TFS!!
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it’s cool that you created each of these with teabags. thanks for sharing!
Great textures. You really have a creative talent man.
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High quality stuffs. Thanks for making them!
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Nice collection!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much for this. It’s really cool all of the information you provided about these pics. I will make sure to use something from this collection for one of our upcoming project in our chicago web design studio. I post back here with a link when its up.
Nice. Some day I will use them… :D
btw visit – http://www.insidefeeders.com
Nice collection!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks nice work! I linked your blog;)
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long time You posted something :)) btw great post :)
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These are soooooo great!! I think im gonna make a wallpaper out of one of them!!!
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@patternhead – i hope they can be useful, or atlest one texture can vbe useful form the pack then that would be great!
@Kim – Thanks for the bookmark, alway apreciated
@Kevin – Thanks, enjoy
@Michele – haha yea it can be really messy tho, cant get any tea on your cloths or it will stain them too!.
@Farid – Awesome, makes me feel good to hear (see) a comment like that, hehe.
@2lip – yea some look a bit too “manufactured”, but i like the way the tea stains the torn edges of some of the textures, torn edges are great!.
@Janko – Thanks man.
These are great, Max! Great work!
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these look really great! it’s always nice to see, how other people are experimenting when creating custom textures.
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Wow! These textures are really great. This is probably one of the best sets I’ve seen lately. Thanks for sharing!
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Oooo, two of my favorite things – paper and tea. Thanks, these are really neat looking!
Awesome textures. Thank you!
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Nice work – bookmarked :)
Sweet. Love these.
Should come in handy. Thanks
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@ Marco – Yeah been really pre-occupied lately, so trying to get back in to the swing of things again. What better way than some free stuff! Thanks marco
Nice one Max – Really unique and could be pretty useful!
Good to see that you’re placing some amazing high quality articles/freebies online again :) .
Keep up the godo work!