At Black Velvet Styling, we believe the right food styling surface can showcase your dishes at their best. Our food photography backdrops are captured from real textures such as marble, wood, stone and tile, giving you a natural and high-end finish without the weight or cost of real materials, or rental fees from prop warehouses. 

They’re rollable and portable, easy to carry and store. What's more they’re flexible, spring open on being unpacked and lay flat instantly for immediate use.

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. We also have a a range of wall ‘drops created with vertical set styling in mind, ideal if you’re shooting straight-on, lower angles.

They’re wipe-clean and durable, making them ideal for messy food and drinks shoots. Designed with a matte finish to minimise reflections our vinyl backdrops are such an easy product to work with and added bonus that they’re fully water resistant and can easily be wiped clean after use. 

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, and we offer the full spectrum of bold colours too. For contemporary colour blocking, we have a range of ready-to-buy solid backdrops.

Our backdrops have been used thousands of times by brands and photographers. From the YouTubers like The Bite Shot to UK supermarkets like Aldi, M&S and Asda, printed and online food magazines like BBC Good Food, Sunday Times Food Supplement and Observer Food Monthly, restaurants including Gordon Ramsay, food brands large and small, studios, agencies and food stylists and photographers like Anna Janecka Suze Morrison Cath Lowe and Nick Millward.