Fabric Textures for Substance Painter
Browse 90 free seamless fabric textures optimized for Substance Painter. Every texture downloads as PNG at 1024px, 2048px, or 4096px — power-of-two sizes that Substance Painter handles efficiently with mipmapping and texture compression. All textures tile perfectly with no visible seams.
Fabric textures — denim, leather, woven cloth, carbon fiber, and scales — bring tactile realism to clothing, furniture, vehicle interiors, and any surface that should read as soft or woven. In Substance Painter, import the PNG as a base color layer or use it as an anchor for additional painted detail — the seamless edges blend cleanly with brush strokes at tile boundaries. All textures are procedurally generated and released under our royalty-free license — free for personal and commercial projects with no attribution required.
Fabric Textures
Blue Tint Carbon Fiber
Classic Black Carbon Fiber
Copper Weave Carbon Fiber
Gold Herringbone Carbon Fiber
Green Racing Carbon Fiber
Matte Stealth Carbon Fiber
Purple Frost Carbon Fiber
Red Accent Carbon Fiber
Silver Weave Carbon Fiber
White Pearl Carbon Fiber
Bark Cork Cork
Burnt Cork Cork
Workflow in Substance Painter
In Substance Painter, import any texture as a Base Material starting point, then layer manual painting on top for creative customisation. The Normal channel imports textures in OpenGL convention by default — if your source was authored in DirectX convention, flip the green channel in the layer properties. For export, ship the full PBR channel set (Base Color, Normal, Roughness, Metallic, AO, Height) rather than individual maps; the downstream engine then has everything it needs for a correct material, and any missing channels lead to fallback grey-rendering at runtime.
Quality notes for fabric textures
Fabric textures need to be tight enough that the weave reads. Extreme zoom reveals the underlying thread grid and breaks the illusion of continuous cloth. Target a UV scale that shows individual weave elements but keeps them small relative to the overall surface — typically threads should read at about 1 to 3 millimetres at expected viewing distance. Pair fabric textures with appropriate sheen values: matte fabrics like cotton at roughness 0.8+, silk or satin at roughness 0.2 to 0.4.
Substance Painter × Fabric specifics
Substance Painter's Fabric Generator produces full PBR-complete cloth. Use our fabric textures as Colour Variation overlays on top to add region-specific colour shifts — for example, dye variation across a shirt or stain patterns on upholstery. The generator handles the weave structure; our textures handle the colour story.
