Texture



Texture is the appearance and feel of a surface. Everything, including works of art, has a texture or surface. Texture can be rough, bumpy, slick, scratchy, smooth, silky, soft, prickly, the list is endless.

There are 2 types of texture.
 * TYPES OF TEXTURE **

**ACTUAL** texture refers to surface illusions of wood, water, glass, clouds, fabrics, metal,grain, sand, smooth surface of canvas, clay, and leather, etc. (Also known as Physical texture or Tactile texture).



**VISUAL** texture is the illusion of having physical texture. Are linear, shape and color patterns invented for specific areas of a composition. Creation of these is limitless.




 * What is it that texture describes of an object? **

Texture is most often used to describe the relative smoothness or roughness of a surface. It can also be used to describe the characteristic surface qualities of familiar materials, such as the roughness of stone, the grain of wood, and the weave of a fabric.


 * How can texture influence the characteristics of a space? **

The relative scale of a texture can affect the apparent shape and position of a plane in space. Textures with a directional grain can accentuate a plane’s length or width. Coarse textures can make a plane appear closer, reduce its scale, and increase its visual weight. In general, textures tend to visually fill the space in which they exist.


 * What is the importance of texture in architecture /Urban Planning? **

Texture in both architecture and urban planning is important as it allows differentiating one space from another, for example a garden of an interior house, the walls of the bathroom and walls of the rooms, an avenue paved of the sidewalk. At present the use of texture in design greatly benefits people with disabilities, visual disabilities especially because they can identify the spaces and move better within them.