[css] CSS: Creating textured backgrounds

I am currently struggling with setting an image background for my site that will load fast enough. I have used data url image and even optomized images but its taking to long when loading the page since the backgournd-image is still very large. Is it possible with CSS to create a textured background color like the one in the picture below? here is an EXAMPLE

I try it and have not been able to match this:

Use an image editor to cut out a portion of the background, then apply CSS's background-repeat property to make the small image fill the area where it is used.

In some cases, background-repeat creates seams where the image repeats. A solution is to use an image editor as follows: starting with the background image, copy the image, flip (mirror, not rotate) the copy left-to-right, and paste it to the right edge of the original, overlapping 1 pixel. Crop to remove 1 pixel from the right edge of the combined image. Now repeat for the vertical: copy the combined image, flip the copy top-to-bottom, paste it to the bottom of the combined, overlapping one pixel. Crop to remove 1 pixel from the bottom. The resulting image should be seam-free.

If you search for an image base-64 converter, you can embed some small image texture files as code into your @import url('') section of code. It will look like a lot of code; but at least all your data is now stored locally - rather than having to call a separate resource to load the image.

Example link: http://www.base64-image.de/

When I take a file from my own inventory of a simple icon in PNG format, and convert it to base-64, it looks like this in my CSS:

url('data:image/png;base64,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')

With your texture images, you'll want to employ a similar process.

You should try slicing the image if possible into a smaller piece which could be repeated. I have sliced that image to a 101x101px image.

CSS:

body{
  background-image: url(SO_texture_bg.jpg);
  background-repeat:repeat;
}

But in some cases, we wouldn't be able to slice the image to a smaller one. In that case, I would use the whole image. But you could also use the CSS3 methods like what Mustafa Kamal had mentioned.

Wish you good luck.