"Polished Stone", Gray Background Pattern #1053
Stone CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
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