If you want the background of a property on your gauge to have a textured look and feel such as a canvas, set the brush type to Texture. When you select the Texture brush element, you can specify the start color, end color and texture style. You can apply the Texture brush element to the properties of your gauge using:
The following screen shot shows a Radial gauge with the Dial’s BrushElement property set to a TextureBrushElement with the following settings:
Texture style — Canvas
Start color — Silver
End color — Dim Gray