Wooden Textured Wicked and Tricky Websites for inspiration

Anyone browsing the websites of creative companies, individuals and communities, will have noticed over the past few years, that patterns, and textures have become a massive design trend. A big part of this design trend, is made up of the use of wooden textures. Some sites simply use wooden textures for backgrounds, some more creatively for specific sections of their site such as features, and some even incorporate the wooden feel into elements such as the logo, or buttons! There are plenty of free, and premium wooden textures out there for you to use, so here is the inspiration you need to put them to good use!

97bottles

Julius Mattsson

Andreas Hinkel

IconDock

Games for her by you

Redeemer Covenant Church

Andrew Bradshaw Media

Dog House Cards

Church on the Rock

Viget Advance

classics

designfabrika

101prints

We Eatt

Matthias Schuetz

The Typography Manual

Komodo Media

taptaptap

Tea Round App

Onskelista

VAEL Project

Fliprate

Cookmate

Fruit Ninja

Shane Seminole Mielke

created by Clark

Matt Bernstein

thethingswemake

Meubelen Van Aerde

Weblounge

SoulCore

Quality XHTML

Moore Family Heritage Project

Respiro Media

fontex

GabeDiaz

nataliadevalle

bcandullo

Paul Wallas

Kendo

enrichmint

Pepper & Koffee

xGraphica

Bills

Kalyan Chatterjee

Kuhboom

Creative Comic

Kyle Haskins

Cottonseed Oil Tour

siebennull

Further Reading and Resources

So you like what you, and want to design yourself something similar making use of wooden textures? Well there are plenty resources out there for you to use for free. Here are some fantastic round ups of such materials.

• 28 high-resolution wood textures for designers
• 70 high resolution wood textures for designers
• 70 awesome wooden texture packs from deviantart

Of course, as always, if you have further fantastic resources, or inspirational examples that you know of, put them up in the comments for everyone to see!