Texture
late Middle English (denoting a woven fabric or something resembling this): from Latin textura ‘weaving’, from text- ‘woven’, from the verb texere .
wiktionary
Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra(“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere(“to weave”). See text. Doublet of tessitura.
etymonline
texture (n.)
early 15c., "network, structure," from Latin textura "web, texture, structure," from stem of texere "to weave" (from PIE root *teks- "to weave, to fabricate, to make; make wicker or wattle framework"). Meaning "structural character" is recorded from 1650s. Related: Textural.
texture (v.)
1888 (implied in textured), "to give a texture to, to make not smooth or plain," from texture (n.).
