How to fold napkins

The need for table napkins arose long ago, when it was customary to eat only with your hands, and it was considered indecent to wipe your hands on a tablecloth or your own clothes.

Now napkin is a necessary item when serving the table. It helps to keep clean and tidy. Beautifully folded napkin will not disregard your table.

Napkins in the table setting: what you need to know?

• If the meal is just everyday, taken fold the napkins in half or in a triangleit is not difficult. BUT festive table will require a more serious approach to folding napkins, as you need to fold complex shapes - candles or sail.
• Everyone invited to the holiday table should be provided a beautifully folded napkin next to the diner plate.
• If you have not yet become owners of linen napkins, then paper napkins are allowed, but you should not cut them into pieces to save money.
• Main function of napkins It is to protect human clothes from particles, sauce and other troubles while eating. Invited guests, sitting down at the table, seeing a linen napkin, do not always know what to do with it correctly! Before you start eating a napkin, as a rule, it is advised to deploy and place on your lap. You should not put a napkin on the collar of a shirt, as this is now considered bad form.

• Fingers stained during the meal wipe on the top of the napkin, in any case not crumpling it completely. When required wipe lips, then wipe them, lifting the napkin and soaking in the middle of the top of the napkin.
• Do not drive a napkin over the entire face, as this is incorrect. It is forbidden to use a napkin in the role of a handkerchief or hand towels.
• After the end of the meal, it is undesirable to hang a napkin on the back of a chair or lay on the seat, it is enough put it to the right of your plate. If your napkin fell from its knees to the floor, it is not necessary to reach behind it and lift it, because it is no longer suitable for later use. You must ask for a new one.

What table napkins to choose?

Serving requires perfectly clean, starched and spotlessly ironed napkins.Fabrics with synthetic addition are considered the most used material - they do not fade after washing, they are easily ironed and keep their shape well.

After washing napkins, it is recommended to starch simple starch, which must first be dissolved in water. It is better not to resort to using aerosol starch, according to reviews, it will not give your napkins the proper density. For easy ironing wipes should be left slightly moist, and dry wipes should be moistened before ironing.

Also When choosing napkins should consider a few rules:

1. Napkin form should be square, if you are going to add complex compositions.
2. All wipes,cooked for the holiday table should be same shape and size. When choosing a form for your napkin, do not forget that the invitees must quickly unfold the napkin.
3. Napkins must be chosen either to the tablecloth or to the dishes. They may be the same color as the tablecloth, but differ in tone, or be of a different color.
4. When laying the napkin, it is required to touch it with your hands as little as possible.

How beautiful roll napkins: different ways

Below are the most common ways of folding napkins, which will not take much time.

How to fold napkinsaccordion?

• The napkin is required to put an accordion.
• In the middle we pinch and put on the napkin ring.
• The napkin created in this way is recommended to be put in a glass - it will be very original.

Cockscomb Napkin Comb

• We fold the napkin in half.
• We fold one another in half in the right direction.
• Diagonally fold all four layers.
• Omit the corners on both sides down.
• Bend down two triangles from themselves.
• Bend the napkin again in half.
• Take out four scallops. We put on the table.

How beautiful to roll a napkin in the form of a flower?

• Put the napkin face up on the table on a hard surface.
• A table fork is required to be placed in the center of the napkin (imagine that you are twisting spaghetti), then push the small folds onto the fabric between the teeth of the fork.
• Then you need to gently rotate the fork in a clockwise direction so that the spiral comes out of the napkin.
• Next, take out the fork, take a napkin in the palm of your hand and squeeze it, not letting the napkin unwind. Then turn on the front side. The flower is ready!

Another way of the original decoration in the form of a flower from paper napkins offered below:

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Cap with a napkin top

• Fold the napkin with the seamy side inwards (bend to the left).
• We fold it again in half, it should be square (the fold should be at the bottom).
• Wrap the lower left corner, leaving 3 cm to the top edge.
• Bend the side corners inward and fasten each other.
• We put the napkin on the table vertically, it should be a "cap" with a turning collar, one of the upper parts bend down.

See also:How beautifully folded paper napkins?

Modern man can no longer imagine his life without wipes. Napkins turn the serving of your table into a noble and refined one, and the composition made is complete and complete, sets the tone for the upcoming evening and creates the mood for the holiday. And to turn a napkin into a work of art is not so difficult!