390+ Natural Wood Textures and Backgrounds for Nature Themes | HipFonts

Mankind has used wood in art, construction, transportation, as well as music since before recorded history.

Despite the dominance of other materials, timber remains a favorite. Humans continue to utilize wood from trees for survival, even today. We turn wood into paper; we build our homes with them; they help keep us warm; and they serve as raw matter for our furniture.

Indeed, mankind owes its very existence and prosperity to nature.

 

Wood as a material in art

It requires a special kind of training to master creating art from wood.

Unlike other mediums, artists and crafters must know the different types they need to work with, and their unique limitations. Wood rots. It’s susceptible to insect and water damage, humidity, and temperature changes. Knowing how to counteract these challenges will help you keep your woodwork for generations to come.

There are various techniques you can employ in woodworking. There’s parquetry, which involves geometric mosaic pieces from wood, and is usually used on floorings. Then there’s whittling, which is a traditional method for carving on raw wood. Many people do this for a hobby because it’s not only a wonderful pastime, it also allows you to practice great creativity.

 

How to use wood and wood textures

You may have heard the terms hardwood and softwood. Dig deeper however, and you’ll find specific details that will help you figure out how to take advantage of each wood type.

In general, hardwood is of course, hard. But it has other characteristics, such as: good resistance to fire, dense grain, comes from slow-growing trees, darker in color, and low sap content. Softwood on the other hand: comes from fast-growing, evergreen trees, typically lighter in color, loose grain, is lightweight, and has poor resistance to fire.

Say you’re interested in making your own furniture. You can use hardwood types like oak, walnut, ash, and mahogany. Ash for example, is strong, durable, and comes in a nice variety of colors such as greyish light brown to something almost reddish. You can often find furniture made of ash hardwood in many restaurants.

As wood has a natural, organic feel to it, it makes sense to combine it with more modern materials or themes. The Scandinavian interior design movement for instance, employs wood, leather, and hemp into its concept to achieve that effortless minimalist style.

Putting wood textures on digital entities like logos, web pages, and social media banners, is another huge trend nowadays because it looks clean, coordinated, and fresh. Many modern brands in beauty, wellness, and food sectors do this, too. They use wood textures to give off an easy, friendly, and sustainable vibe to their branding.

 

Strong Wood Textures and Backgrounds

Historic, natural, and extremely functional, wood is one of those materials with tons of uses. Can you imagine what the world would be like if we couldn’t it? For those who love its organic and earthy feel, these wood textures and backgrounds should suit your needs.

 

1. 44 Wood Grain Textures

44 Wood Grain Textures min

Add something exciting to your design resources with this big texture pack from Layerform. With 22 unedited textures and 22 color corrected ones, you get high detail wood grain at 5184×3456 pixels and 300 dpi.

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2. Forest Land Vector Kit

Forest Land Vector Kit min

Make your blogs, book covers, or posters stand out using these intricate stump illustrations by Veila. Drawn by hand and comes in multipurpose vector formats, these beautiful timber textures are a sight for sore eyes!

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3. 18 Weathered Wood Textures/Backgrounds

18 Weathered Wood min

Go hard or go home. Give your projects a solid edge with these high resolution textures and backgrounds by Vasaki.

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4. Wood Grit Textures

Wood Grit Textures min

Ghostly Pixels presents 10 individual full-page textures that mimic wood grain. Detailed, dramatic, and crisp, there are definitely plenty of options to choose from.

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5. Cabin at the Lake Wood Textures

Cabin at the Lake Wood min

No need to build a cozy log cabin from scratch – just design something similar using these amazing wood textures from Design Panoply. You’ll also get ‘The Olde Saw Mill’ logo mockup and logo design for free.

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6. 20 Wood Textures/Backgrounds

20 Wood Textures min

Shabby, rough, and with 3 lighting effects, this pack contains a total of 20 wooden backgrounds for your websites, banners, posters, flyers, and more.

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7. Grunge Wood Textures x10 Vol 2

Grunge Wood Textures Vol 2 min

Instantly improve the look and feel of your designs when you use this premium collection by Smart Designs EU.

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8. Old Wood Textures x10 Vol 2

Old Wood Textures vol2 min

These photographs of high-res old wood textures look great on their own, or combined with graphic elements for an authentic rustic vibe.

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9. Hand Illustrated Wood Texture Patterns

Hand Illustrated Wood Texture min

Drawn with a pen, this set of 3 timber patterns will provide your projects with a sought-after vintage look that fits most modern tastes.

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10. 45 Wood Textures Vol 2

45 Wood Textures vol2 min

A massive collection of 45 professional photos in varying colors and designs, it’s like having your very own wooden texture library.

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11. Wood Grain Textures

10 Wood Grain Textures min

Derived from high-resolution photos of wood grain, wood planks, wood flooring, and wood paneling, this pack comes in EPS and PNG formats for your convenience.

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12. Wood Halftone Textures

Wood Halftone Textures min

Here’s a refreshing twist to regular wood textures. Combine with retro graphics, fonts, or illustrations, and you’ll get the perfect look for menus, graphic novels, flyers, posters, album covers, and landing pages.

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13. 22 High Resolution Wood Texture

22 High Resolution Wood min

Eightonesix Studios brings you 22 beautiful and high-quality wood textures available in 4000×3000 pixels and TIFF format.

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14. Wood Grain Texture Pack

Wood Grain Texture Pack min

A collection containing 20 files of detailed close-up textures of timber grain, Hugh Adams gives you something you’ll be happy to have in your toolkit. Ideal for digital or print materials.

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15. Wood Texture Pack Background

Wood Texture Pack min

Whether you need something unique for business cards or for your scrapbook, this product of 10 vector wood textures by Mihis Design will work wonders.

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16. Wood Texture Vector

Wood Texture Vector min

Fully editable and easy to recolor, these 20 hand-drawn textures by Yandi Designs were made using fine and brush pens on paper for that natural, organic feel.

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17. 15 Wood Textures

15 Wood Textures min

Take your mock-ups, presentations, logotypes, and websites to the next level when you choose this set by Creative Tacos. You’ll receive 15 backgrounds in JPEG and PNG formats.

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18. Wood Tree Stumps

Wood Tree Stumps min

Featuring crisp details of tree rings in convenient PNG or Vector EPS formats, this is one solid collection you’d be crazy to pass up.

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19. 45 Wood Textures

45 Wood Textures min

Can’t decide between a dark, dense mahogany look or a light, worn wood effect? You don’t have to if you purchase this premium pack of 45 wood backgrounds.

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20. Wood Abstractions

Wood Abstractions min

Turn traditional wood into modern abstraction in this pack by Hello Mart Co. Inspired by ink drawings, woodcut, and pop art, you’ll get 12 designs plus seamless tiling textures that are not only gorgeous, but also versatile.

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