I used a medium-brown velvet background and chose all the contents of the picture to blend accordingly.

Perhaps it was because the simple black dress that she wore had all the effect of a velvet background against a galaxy of jewels.

Like gems held suspended within a brown velvet background.

That left the room in near-darkness -thin dim green stripes on a black velvet background.

The richly decorated velvet background features pomegranates, a fruit closely "associated with blood, death and resurrection".

But only the remote stars glimmered there, unwinking points against a velvet background of unfathomable distance.

The mantelpiece was a galaxy of gems, displayed upon velvet backgrounds.

A glittering necklace of sapphire and diamonds lay on a velvet background.

It is arranged like a cabinet inside, with coloured velvet background, to display the stone.

Fifteen minutes to midnight and the night sky formed a black velvet background to a celebration of sound and colour.