15+ High Quality Paper Texture and Background Packs

In this post, we have put together a collection of paper texture packs and backgrounds that you can use in your commercial projects. This round up includes a wide variety of paper textures, such as vintage paper textures, paper grunge textures, torn paper textures, seamless textures as well as some unique textures of marbled paper, watercolor paper and, burnt paper edges. All of these textures are available for download in JPG or PNG format that you can use in any graphic design tool.

Free Paper Texture Packs

Textures are a versatile design element and are widely used across app, web and graphic design. They can be used in a subtle, unobtrusive way to complement and enhance an existing design, or can be used to make design statements in themselves. Either way textures add intricacy and visual interest to your design.

These paper textures will be a great fit for backgrounds of your app or website, for highlighting buttons, titles and important actionable items, logo design, for creating text effects, promotional images, the possibilities are just many. Towards the end you’ll also find some premium paper texture packs. Have a look!

1. 5 Seamless Old Paper Textures

This freebie from PixelBuddha includes 5 seamless vintage paper textures that are royalty free for use in both personal and commercial projects. The downloadable zip file includes 512 px and 1024 px squared JPG images, PSD and Photoshop pattern (PAT) files.

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2. Paper Texture Pack – 9 papers

A pack of free paper textures by zigabooooo. The zip file includes 9 high-resolution (around 2000 x 3000px) paper textures in JPG format.

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3. Card Stock Paper Textures

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This freebie by CompanyFolders offers 64 high resolution card stock photos. Available for download as 2100×1500 JPG images at 300 DPI.

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4. Marbled Paper Textures

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This collection of 6 free marbled paper textures by GraphicBurger is suitable for a variety of design projects, such as websites, posters, apparel or packaging. Available in high resolution JPG format.

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5. Vintage Japanese Paper Textures

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This freebie pack of 12 vintage paper textures is a tribute to the Japanese culture with its gorgeous traditional ornaments and oriental motifs. Perfect for use as background to packaging, collages, and branding. Available as JPG files.

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6. Watercolor Paper Textures

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These beautifully and richly textured watercolor papers will add a pleasant handicraft feeling to all your graphic design projects. Each of the 12 JPG paper textures comes with a gold accented version as well. Ideal for both print and screen projects such as scrapbooking, branding, advertisement, stationery ideas, and background.

Related: 100+ Watercolor Backgrounds and Textures

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7. Old Creased Paper Textures

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This free set by Chris Spooner contains 20 old paper textures with various amounts of creases, folds and stains, providing a variety of vintage paper effects to suit all kinds of design scenarios. Available as 2000x3000px at 300 ppi in JPG format.

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8. 100 Free Torn Cardboard Textures PNG

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A huge collection of 100 hand-made textures of torn cardboard isolated with transparent background. These 4K resolution PNG textures are free to use in personal and commercial projects.

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9. Free Wrinkle Paper Textures

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Great for photo overlays, this free texture pack offers 6 high resolution 4500 x 3000 pix 300dpi wrinkle and grunge paper textures. Available for free download in JPG format.

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10. Free Folded Old Paper Textures

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This pack includes 5 free vintage-inspired folded paper textures. Created from old yellow and brown sheets of paper, this realistic paper texture collection is suitable to add old vintage depth to your designs. Free to download as 3000x4500px JPG files at 300 dpi.

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11. Colored Vintage Paper Texture Pack

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This free set of 20 vintage/aged paper textures from WebFX contains textures that are each 3600 x 3600px in size, high-resolution, and in JPG format. These textures can be used as backgrounds or for adding textured elements in designs, illustrations and photos.

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12. Free Burnt Paper Edge Textures

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This freebie by Chris Spooner contains 6 high resolution JPG and transparent PNG images of burnt paper. These textures are perfect for giving designs an antique appearance.

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13. Crumpled Paper Texture Pack

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This pack by raduluchian includes 10 crumpled paper textures in JPG format (1414 x 2000 px).

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14. 5 High Resolution Grungy Paper Textures

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A pack of 2500×1667 px grungy paper textures to add distressed effects to your artwork, courtesy  PremiumPixels. The textures are available for download as JPG images.

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15. 5 Folded Paper Backgrounds – JPG & PSD

This is a free set of five folded paper backgrounds by GraphicBurger. Downloadable archive includes a PSD file and 1767×2500 px JPG images. These paper backgrounds are perfect for use in flyers and posters.

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Bonus: Premium Paper Textures

Below you will find some handpicked premium paper texture packs from Envato and Creative Market. Please note that these items may contain our affiliate links.

175 High Quality JPG Paper Textures

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This pack of 175 paper textures crafted with real paper sheets contains 9 different kinds of paper textures including bad photocopy noise, vintage, glued, kraft, dark, drawing, crumpled, folded, and colored paper. They are perfect for creating vintage, contemporary or abstract designs. Download includes JPG files of 6000×4000 px size.

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Inked Paper Texture Pack

inked paper texture pack

A pack of 30 JPG images featuring textures of ink, brushes and microfiber cloth on smooth paper. High resolution of 6000×8000 px at 300 dpi.

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50 Realistic Paper Textures Set

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Another set of high-resolution paper textures including that of cardboard, vintage paper, folded and more. These JPG textures can be used in graphic design software or online tool.

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Tea Stains Paper Textures

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These unique tea stain paper textures can be used as a background, as photo overlays, or as a mask to fill any shape or text in your design projects. Includes 15 6000×4000 px textures in JPG format.

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The Papyrus – 65 Paper Textures

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A versatile set of 65 super high-resolution paper textures designed for use in all kinds of projects including ultra hi-res 3D modeling or large graphic projects, including prints. This pack contains textures of different materials like cartons, wrapping paper, notebooks, soft paper, recycled paper and more in JPG, TIFF and PSD formats.

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28 Paper Grunge Backgrounds

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This pack includes 28 paper grunge textured backgrounds. High in detail, lighting and texture, the backgrounds are perfect for web design backgrounds and design projects. On purchasing, you get 28 2560×1600 px JPG backgrounds and a PSD file with four different paper textures and two pattern overlays.

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Colorful Seamless Papers

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Available in 15 shades, this pack has 1200×1200 px JPG and Photoshop pattern (PAT) files.

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Use your imagination and turn these free paper texture packs into something awesome. You can also take a look at this showcase of creative uses of textures in mobile app interfaces for inspiration.

Paper textures work well together with other organic textures like wood and fabric textures. You may also want to check out our other articles that cover different textures including wood textures, leather textures, fabric textures as well as our collection of free textures for Photoshop. And do share this post with everyone if you found it useful.

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