: Creating a cocoon-like spun texture I'm trying to create a 2d texture like that shown below that I can use to similarly 'shrink wrap' objects in 3d software so they look like they've been

@Hamm6457569

On a quick search, it appears that a great many people don't know the difference between a cobweb and a spider's web, but cobwebs are the thing you're looking for. Here's one that's free and looks to be right up your alley.

If "cobweb" doesn't get you what you need, "halloween" will, because that fabric you're thinking of (I have no idea what it's called, either!) is sold by the ton as a Halloween decoration. You could do a lot worse than buy some from an art supply or party supply place and photograph it.

You can see some of these also might be they'll be useful :


Spiderweb Texture
Spider web
Might be Evil cocoon texture
spider web


Hope this will help...

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@Lee3735518

The first thing that came to mind for me was a fractured glass pattern. There are lots of images out there depicting it, but the trick would be to find a few good ones where there is no background imagery visible and where the pattern is fairly irregular. If you can find some like that, I think it might work well for this. You'd probably have to compose several of them together to get something that looks layered like your example, and only use the parts that look like webbing and leave out the smashed bits in the center if they are visible. But I do think it could work.

Here's a decent fracture image I found on iStockPhoto. If you put that on a layer and set the blend mode to Screen, that's how you can extract just the white bits.
www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-7173038-cracks-in-broken-windshield-against-a-black-background.php?st=121b19a

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