[Fabric] Burlap Textures

Burlap is a coarse open weave, so the gaps between threads matter as much as the threads themselves. Rendered without any translucency it looks like painted cardboard rather than jute sacking.

License

Free for personal and commercial use. No attribution required. Commercial games, film, and client work are all permitted. No credit, no backlink, no permission request needed. You may not resell or redistribute the texture files themselves as a texture pack.

What's in this collection

• Coarse jute weave — wide thread spacing with visible fibre strands.
• Sacking — tighter industrial weave used for grain and coffee sacks.
• Frayed burlap — loose threads and worn edges from handling.
• Stained burlap — damp patches and dirt absorbed into the fibre.

All tiles are seamless in both directions and delivered at high resolution.

Where burlap is used

Rustic props. Grain sacks, sandbags, market stall covers, feed bags.

Set dressing. Farmhouse interiors, warehouses, medieval storerooms.

Packaging design. Artisan food and coffee branding mockups.

Upholstery detail. Exposed webbing on unfinished furniture.

How to use these in Blender

1. Load the map into Base Color and keep Metallic at 0.
2. Add a Translucent BSDF mixed at 0.1–0.2 so backlight shows through the weave.
3. Set Roughness high, around 0.9; jute has no sheen.
4. Use the weave as a bump source rather than displacement.

How to use these in Unreal Engine 5

1. Enable the Subsurface or Two Sided Foliage shading model for thin sacks.
2. Import at 2K and keep tiling tight — burlap weave is small.
3. Use an opacity mask version for frayed edges instead of modelling threads.
4. Add cloth-normal variation so folds do not look printed on.

How to use these in Unity

1. Create a URP Lit material with Smoothness near 0.05.
2. Tile 4–6 times per metre so the weave scale reads correctly.
3. Use alpha clipping for torn edges on sack props.
4. Darken the albedo where sacks contact the ground.

Tips for burlap specifically

Weave direction should follow the sack seam. A rotated weave on a stitched edge is immediately noticeable.

Burlap absorbs light rather than reflecting it. If a render shows a specular highlight, smoothness is too high.

Keep the colour range narrow — tan to olive brown. Overly saturated burlap looks like dyed hessian craft fabric.

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