Here is the front and back of a shabby blue book cover. The cover is well worn, with water stains, scuffs, scratches, and creases. There is a piece of green tape at the top and bottom of the edges of the covers, where the book boards met the spine. A piece of grungy masking tape…
Textures
Striped Texture Page
Here is a striped texture page. The colors of the stripes are perhaps best described as being a steel blue color, with light gray between the stripes. The page is heavily textured, having a few scratches and scuffs here and there, and foxing around the outer edges. The original scan of this striped texture page…
Vintage Floral Patterned Endpaper
Here is a slightly shabby, vintage floral patterned endpaper. I scanned the original endpaper from a book titled The Home Library of Useful Knowledge by R. S. Peale. The book was published in 1887. Click on image to enlarge. New in my Etsy shop is a printable shabby creased coffee dyed paper pack Preview image…
Vintage Floral Design Endpaper
Here is a worn vintage book endpaper with a design of flowers and leaves. I scanned the original page from an antique book titled Our Homes and Their Adornments by Almon C. Varney. The book was published in 1882. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Grunge Texture
Here are three well-aged grunge texture papers. They are endpapers I scanned from a couple volumes of Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Vintage Texture Red Marbled
This unique shabby red endpaper is marbled with dark yellow and cream colored bubble shapes and has black and white veins of color running throughout. Click on image to enlarge. The original page is from The Teachers’ and Pupils” Cyclopaedia, 1905.
Free Vintage Grunge Texture Graphics
Here are three shabby grunge paper texture graphics. I scanned the originals from antique books in my collection that were published in the late 1800s. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Vintage Patterned Grunge Textures
Here are two grungy, aged and stained texture papers. I scanned the originals from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. Click on images to enlarge.
Floral Endpaper
Here is a beautifully aged floral endpaper. The paper has green flowers and leaves on a light background that has yellowed with age. There is foxing around the edges of the page. I scanned the page from Little Folks Natural History that was published by McLoughlin Bros. in 1902. Click on image to enlarge.
Shabby Aged Stained Endpapers
Here are two shabby, grungy, aged and stained texture papers. They are endpapers from Hooker’s Illustrated Natural History by Worthington Hooker, M.D. The book was published in 1864. Click on images to enlarge.
Shabby Postcard Backs ~ Free Vintage Graphics
Here are two shabby and aged vintage postcard backs. The first card is a dark golden yellow color with a dividing line for correspondence and address down the center. The main wording is also centered and there are pretty swirls included in the design of the words: Post Card. The second postcard back is shabby…
Aged Floral Endpaper
Here is a lovely floral endpaper that has aged and yellowed nicely over time. The page is from the book The Sunbeams and Me that was published by Raphael Tuck & Sons in the late 1800s. Click on image to enlarge.
