At Black Velvet Styling, we create food styling surfaces designed to showcase your dishes at their best. Captured from textures like real marble, wood, stone and tile, our food photography backdrops give you the natural, high-end look of real materials without the weight, cost or hassle of hiring from prop warehouses.

Rollable, portable and easy to store, our premium vinyl backdrop spring open when unpacked and lay flat instantly, so you can get straight to styling and shooting.

Whether you’re running a food blog, creating brand content, or shooting a cookbook, our vinyl photography backdrops help you create mouthwatering food photography. 

A photography background plays a big role in the entire set-up. It creates the mood, it lifts your hero and completes the story. We have over 200 beautiful, yet highly commercial designs ideal for overhead food flat-lay photography. Including a range of wall ‘drops created with vertical set styling in mind, ideal if you’re shooting straight-on, lower angles.

With a matte finish to minimise reflections our vinyl backdrops are such an easy product to work with. And—added bonus—they’re fully water resistant and can easily be wiped clean after use. Ideal for messy food and drinks shoots.

With nearly 200 designs, we know it’s hard to choose! Lighter tones give you that bright and airy look, while darker designs are perfect for moody, editorial-style photography.

Marble and neutral backdrops offer maximum versatility, while our hyper-realistic wood textures add character and look every bit as good through the lens as they do in real life.

If you’re shooting with flash or hard artificial lighting, graphic patterns create maximum impact, plus there's the full spectrum of bold colours to choose from too. For contemporary looks, we also have a range of ready-to-buy solid colour backdrops.

Our backdrops have been used thousands of times by brands and photographers, including YouTubers such as The Bite Shot; UK supermarkets Aldi, M&S and Asda; print and online food publications such as BBC Good Food, The Sunday Times Magazine and Observer Food Monthly; restaurants including Gordon Ramsay; food brands large and small; studios; agencies; food stylists and well-known food photographers such as Anna Janecka, Suze Morrison, Cath Lowe and Nick Millward.