Category: resources

Four digital designs for you today! A reconstructed sunset, a grid of beads using tile colours, some striped cloth, and a section of Theophilus’s On Divers Arts, dealing with cutting & polishing gems. As always, these are Creative Commons licensed (CC:BY) – you can use them in any way you like, so long as you credit me if you’re making...

Sheridan LeFanu’s story Carmilla is an absolute classic of the vampire genre, and the eponymous deuteragonist is credited as the first lesbian vampire. Inevitably, she comes to a very sad end. This is the first chapter (discounting the framing prologue) layered over a rose-red textural panel (which I’ve included on its own, below) and a single rosebud. All of these...

This first texture is taken from a mediaeval ceramic tile in Derby museum. As always, click through for a full-size high-resolution version. It’ll print at A4, and it’s fully tileable. The second is a straightforward photo of a Victorian brick wall, lovely and crumbly. Pebbledashing houses and then painting them white is a very traditional practice, and it gives a...