Thursday Themes - Textures

Hi there! Welcome to this week's Thursday Themes.


Thursday Themes was thought of by Toni of Chick Chat fame.
If you'd like to join in, hop on over there and add your name to her link, after you've done your post on this week's theme, which is Textures.

Every week, Toni will post a different theme suggestion for us to have a go at.




Textures surround each and every one of us, from conception to death. Even in death, we are surrounded by the textures of our clothing, our coffin, and the earth that covers all.


Everything has a texture that can be seen and felt.
Metal, glass and plastic, all have a similar texture, smooth, hard, cold.

Many things, while sharing an origin, have a different look and feel, (texture), dependent on how the original product is processed, then treated.

Take fabric, for instance. The texture of a coarse canvas tarpaulin is so different from a soft fluffy blanket, very different again from the smooth silkiness of a satin ballgown. Yet all have the same cotton origin.


Compare the slight coarseness of a newspaper to the glossy smooth pages of a magazine.
Each is paper based, but the treatments used to produce them result in a differing texture for each.

The supple flexibility of new green leaves,

is very different from the dry, brittle texture of the same leaves a few months later, as they fall from the trees.

A few more examples:

Bread has a soft, chewy texture,

which becomes a crisp, crunchy texture when toasted.

Sugar begins as a liquid texture, squeezed from the fibres, (a fibrous texture), of the cane it grows in, processed to become the pale brown, dull crystals of raw sugar.

Processed further, it becomes the smaller, sparkly and finer textured crystals of white sugar.

Still further processing brings it to icing sugar, crystals so finely textured they appear to be a powder.

The semi-rigid nylon bristles of a toothbrush have a thicker, firmer texture,

than the soft flexible texture of a cosmetics brush.

Water has a liquid texture,

until you freeze it into ice-cubes. Hard, cold textured.

A plant can have several textures all at once.

A rose bush has smooth textured stems, with thorns, that have a prickly texture.

The leaves are glossy and smoothly textured,

while the petals have a soft, velvety texture.

Giant rocks.

In these we have two examples.

1. Eroded by wind, breaking down into stones, smoothed and worn down by water to become pebbles, which are smooth textured.

2. Mined by machinery, broken down into stones, crushed by machinery, to become gravel, which has a rough texture.

In both cases, however, the gravel and pebbles will eventually break down to become sand, a completely different texture again, crystalline, far removed from the giant rock it once was. Yet not so far, since a rock itself is nothing more than a giant crystal.

1. Pebbles.

2. Gravel.

The ridged texture of a brass lampbase,

contrasts nicely with the smoothly woven texture of its shade.

Take a look around you right now and see the many textures of the treasures that you have.

Close your eyes and feel the differences in the textures.

Then do a post of your own? And link back to Toni at Chick Chat.

Be sure to check back there in a couple of days for next weeks theme challenge.