About this texture
Rust Basket-Weave Upholstery: finish and surface detail
Pairs of terracotta yarns cross in alternating horizontal and vertical groups. Subtle changes in fiber color and twist give the cloth a heathered appearance. The light catches the tops of the yarns softly, with small pockets of shade between the pairs.
Where to use this material
Use it on seat cushions, upholstered headboards or padded wall panels. Align the weave with the long edge of each fabric panel and use geometry for piping or seams that change the silhouette.
Keep the finish believable
Start at roughness 0.84 and normal strength 0.57 for a soft matte finish. At grazing angles, reduce the normal strength if the crossings look hard. The images model a woven appearance. For visible loose fibers in a macro shot, add them separately.
Texture scale and UV repeats
The scene uses an illustrative 12 cm repeat. Compare the yarn groups against a modeled upholstery seam and keep the weave scale consistent on adjacent panels. Check the repeats on long surfaces and adjust UVs at panel edges.
The example uses 0.12 m per full texture tile. This is an illustrative UV scale, not a measured physical capture. Inspect the repeat at your actual camera distance before covering a large surface.
Set up Rust Basket-Weave Upholstery in Blender
Connect albedo.png to Base Color using sRGB. Use roughness.png and normal-gl.png as Non-Color data. Route the normal through a Normal Map node, starting at strength 0.57. Set metallic to 0. The downloadable scene packs all three images.
The base color is AI-generated, and normal and roughness are estimates. The material changes surface shading; it does not add silhouette geometry. The pack has no displacement, AO or metallic image. For an engine expecting DirectX normals, use an image editor to invert the normal map’s green channel. Follow the Blender texture setup guide for the node connections.
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Rust Basket-Weave Upholstery: common questions
How does basket weave differ from a checked fabric?
In this texture, neighboring groups of the same rust-colored yarn change direction at each crossing. The linked checked fabric makes its larger grid with contrasting colors. Inspect the normal map under a soft light to see the smaller woven structure.
How do I keep the weave in scale across a cushion seam?
Set the two cushion panels to the same UV scale before aligning their weave directions. Start with a 12 cm tile and compare the yarns to the piping. The normal map gives the yarns shading detail, while the modeled seam defines the edge.
Browse the fabric texture library, the existing material library, or use the tile and offset checker to inspect repetition.




