If you need some rough and ready materials to add realism to a render or SketchUp visual, try using your own photographs and the inbuilt function in GIMP.
Find a photograph and crop the area you want to use.
Now go to filters/map/make seamless.
Whilst the results aren’t perfect, you can get fairly decent results with little effort. Here’s some Sample materials which went into this demonstration image.
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