This paper presents and compares six novel approaches for capturing, synthesising and relighting real 3D surface textures. Unlike 2D texture synthesis these techniques allow the captured textures to be relit using illumination conditions, and viewing angles, that differ from those of original. Our approaches each comprise two stages: synthesis and relighting. Synthesis can be applied either before or after relighting. The relighting stage is implemented in three different ways: using image-based, gradientbased, and height-based approaches. Thus there are a total of six different ways in which we may combine these functions. We present a representative set of results selected from our experiments with 30 textures. The best images are obtained when image-based or gradient-based relighting is used after synthesis.