Homemade Texture

I did some experimenting with texures today.  For those of you who are not photoshop lovers, a texture is a layer you can add over a photo to give it a different style.  It makes the photo look, well...textured. 
Anyway, I have some downloaded textures that I use in my photos occasionally, but today I decided to try making my own.  I used a few antique books as material for my textures. 

Here is an original photo, with no texture added:

This is one of my texture photos:

And here is the texture used on the original photo:

I like the aged look it gives the photo!

Here are a few more:

I think this last texture is my favorite!