diff --git a/kivy/data/images/button.png b/kivy/data/images/button.png
index afe4d7a3e..4b1bcc3de 100644
Binary files a/kivy/data/images/button.png and b/kivy/data/images/button.png differ
diff --git a/kivy/data/images/slider-background.png b/kivy/data/images/slider-background.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb8e24836
Binary files /dev/null and b/kivy/data/images/slider-background.png differ
diff --git a/kivy/data/style.kv b/kivy/data/style.kv
index 586efceaa..dfc2a0262 100644
--- a/kivy/data/style.kv
+++ b/kivy/data/style.kv
@@ -21,13 +21,12 @@
 <Slider>:
     canvas:
         Color:
-            rgb: (.3, .3, .3)
-        Rectangle:
-            pos: self.pos
-            size: self.size   
-
-        Color:
-            rgb: (.7, .2, .5)
-        Rectangle:
-            pos: self.value_pos
-            size: (20,self.height)
+            rgb: 1, 1, 1
+		BorderImage:
+			pos: self.pos
+			size: self.size
+			source: 'data/images/slider-background.png'
+		BorderImage:
+			pos: self.value_pos
+			size: (20, self.height)
+			source: 'data/images/button.png'