The Best of Paper Background Texture Collections
Aside from wood textures, the other texture type that is equally gaining popularity among designers and hobbyists are paper background textures. Today, good quality paper background textures are a must in any designers’ toolbox. So, in this roundup, I am going to provide links to impressive high quality paper background textures that you can use in your projects. Starting from grungy to old paper background textures to cardboard textures, there are more kinds of papers to check out. Use these paper background textures to make grunge theme of web background or as background to your digital scrapbooking projects. Terms of use of most of these resources are governed by Creative Commons License. I hope you will also find these paper background textures useful.
PAPER BACKGROUND 01- Grungy High Resolution Paper Textures
Source: Bittbox
This free set of paper background textures from Bittbox includes four high resolution grungy and crumpled paper background textures. They can be downloaded and used for free. Full size of these are 2005 X 3000 pixels each.
PAPER BACKGROUND 02- High Resolution Plain and Grunge Paper Textures
Source: Fudge Graphics
There are 10 free high resolution paper background textures divided into 2 sets (plain and grunge) in this set. Resolution of all paper background textures are about 3000 pixels wide.
PAPER BACKGROUND 03- Grunge Paper Textures
Source: Best Photoshop Tutorials
This pack contains five large-sized grunge paper background textures that you can use in any of your Photoshop project. The size of each image is set at around 1280 pixels by 1024 pixels.
PAPER BACKGROUND 04- Paper and Cardboard Textures
Source: Grunge Textures
This set contains high-resolution stock photos of paper and cardboard. All images are licensed under Creative Commons.
PAPER BACKGROUND 05- Paper Backgrounds and Textures
Source: CreativeCloseup
This set contains 30 high-resolution paper background textures that you can use as background. Please visit the site to download the items that you would like to download.
PAPER BACKGROUND 06- Fantastically Free High Res Brown Paper Textures
Source: Spoongraphics.com
If you are a fan of the distressed and craft like feel of brown paper, then this set is for you. The five paper background textures included in the pack are scanned from the likes of parcel wrapping, grocery bags and old envelopes. At 300dpi each, these textures are not only useful for web design projects but also for print.
PAPER BACKGROUND 07- Exclusive Paper Textures
SOURCE: PSDFAN.com
This is the first texture set released at PSDFAN. The ten (10) paper background textures are offered by PSDFAN for free. Actual size of each texture image is 1280 pixes by 960 pixels.
PAPER BACKGROUND 08- High Resolution Burnt Paper Textures
Source: Designshard.com
There are 19 paper background textures included in this set. The resolution of each texture is relatively high at 1600 pixels by 1135 pixels. Some of them may need some color adjustments and cleaning up. But generally, they are fun to play with and add to your designs.
PAPER BACKGROUND 09- Old Book Cover Textures
Source: lostandtaken.com
The set contains 15 high resolution and absolutely free to use textures. The paper background textures that you will find here are scanned images of books in various states of disrepair and sometimes decomposition.
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PAPER BACKGROUND 10- High Resolution Cardboard Textures and Objects
Source: Six Revisions
Cardboard textures and objects can be used in numerous ways to give a design a raw and realistic look. You’ll find a variety of very high-resolution paper background textures and pieces that you can use in any manner you choose. You can even use these paper background textures and objects for commercial work without attribution. However, even if the author does not require attribution, let us give credit to whom credit is due.
PAPER BACKGROUND 11- Paper Textures
Source: digital-artist-toolbox.com
There are nine (9) paper background textures in this pack which include torn notebook paper, brown paper, watercolor paper and more. The images however have pink background which can be easily removed 
PAPER BACKGROUND 12 – Rough Paper Textures
Author: melance
The paper background textures are scans of some papers created using different types of paper and coffee. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Total file size of the zipped downloadable file is 56.5 MB, with resolution of each image set at 828×951 pixels.
PAPER BACKGROUND 13 – Natural Paper Texture
Author: cloaks
This pack contains nine paper background textures made from natural paper. The file size of the zipped downloadable file is 3.4 MB, with resolution of each image set at 1024 x 850 pixels.
PAPER BACKGROUND 14- Paper Grunge Textures
Author: omnigenus
This set includes five (5) large grunge paper and other miscellaneous textures. Resolution of the images are at 749×443 pixels, 821×408 pixels, 747×443 pixels, 821×408 pixels and 816×408 pixels. Total file size is 3.1 MB.
PAPER BACKGROUND 15- Grungy paper texture v.14
Author: bashcorpo
This is a scan of a grungy paper found in the rubble of a demolished meat factory. The texture is royalty free for non-profit private use. However, if you want to use this texture for commercial projects, please contact the author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
PAPER BACKGROUND 16- Vintage grunge textures
Author: Princess-of-Shadows
These paper background textures are made using scans of different paper textures and some brushes. File Size is 16.1 MB and resolution of each image is 500×400 pixels.
PAPER BACKGROUND 17 – Textures set on Flickr
This set contains not only paper textures. You can find everything from rust to fabric, cement to lace, and many more. All of these textures are available with creative commons license.
useful collection thanks..
Thanks for including my burnt paper, paper textures are extremly useful
Good design, i like it! thx