How beautifully to fold paper napkins on a festive table: charts and descriptions

How beautifully folded napkins to serve not only for hygienic purposes and served as decor create a mood? This question can be asked only by the real hostess, whose comfort in the house is noticeable even in small things. In order to give an unusual shape to paper tableware, there is no need to be an origami master. You can use the simplest schemes. The main thing is to have a sense of style, to properly assess the moment and to think original. This and try to learn.

Learning to "holiday" addition

Let's start with the fact that in general, napkins can be divided into fabric and paper. Tissue create solemnity, give the table refinement, even some officiality. However, their use is not always appropriate. For example, if we talk about a friendly party, children's birthday party or a gala dinner in the close circle of family, the best option would be unusual bright paper napkins, folded original and appropriate to the theme of the holiday.

Reflecting on how beautifully folded paper napkins, it is worth considering several principles, observing which, you can achieve a brilliant result.

So, paper napkins must meet the following criteria.

1. Their shape varies depending on the holiday occasion and the age of the guests.
2. They should be folded simply so that guests do not have to deploy them long before using them for their intended purpose.
3. Admit various options for addition, acceptable for fabric table serving items. The main thing is to choose the ones in which they add up simply, with few steps and nuances, because the size of paper napkins is usually much smaller, and it will be difficult and even impossible to implement complex schemes.
4. Napkins are selected in harmony in color with the tablecloth and the objects that serve the festive table.
5. Place them on a plate, put in a glass or napkin. Depending on this option is selected addition.
6. Immediately before folding, when it's time to serve the table, the napkins should be already prepared. Also, you should practice in advance to "fill your hand" and that this activity does not take a lot of time in the pre-holiday fuss.

Council

If the hostess did not know how to fold paper napkins, and circuits commonly offered on the Internet and women's magazines seem obscure and difficult to implement, it is necessary to learn the most basic shapes: tube, angle, accordion - and play with color.

Tricks in the simplest schemes addition

If the hostess can not and does not like to use complex schemes to minimize napkins or simply do not have time and surprise your guests with an original serving you want, you can implement a simple scheme and to focus on well-chosen colors.

To choose them follows concerning colors of a tablecloth or holiday subjects. We give simple examples.

• Day of all lovers: perform elementary figures with the presence of red and pink flowers.



• New Year: combine green and gold( yellow) colors.
• Halloween: combine orange and black colors.
• Birth of a baby: alternate wipes of white and pink( blue) color or pink and blue, if a twin was born - daughter and son.



• Children's holiday: lay these hygiene products in a napkin harmonica, alternating colors of the rainbow. It is also possible, for example, to turn orange napkins and straws to tie a green ribbon, and inside put disposable cutlery( forks, spoons) green - will receive a carrot.
• Any celebration: decorate the table with napkins folded area of ​​bright color( suitable for scale to color tablecloths or in harmony with cutlery, decorative elements) with attached thematic clips( Christmas trees, snowflakes, hearts, pumpkins, etc...).

Folding a corner, accordion, pipe and fan

For those who are just learning the science of folding paper napkins, it is worth starting with elementary options. But how beautifully to fold paper napkins without using complicated schemes? As mentioned above, they can be placed on a plate, in a glass or placed in a napkin.

If you want to insert a napkin in a glass, fold it with a tube according to the following algorithm.

1. Fully unfold the large square napkin.
2. Fold it diagonally to make a triangle.
3. Place the triangle in front of you with the bottom facing down.
4. Now you have to minimize the resulting triangle by a tube. Twist the paper three fingers( index, middle and anonymous) starting at the right corner of the triangle, placing it between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand.
5. You should get a tube with an even edge at the bottom and an uneven edge at the top.
6. Mark 1/3 of the tube from above and bend it outward.
7. Insert the tube into the beaker.

If the table is served with a napkin, you can put napkins into it with an accordion or corners. To get an accordion, do the following.

1. If the napkin is small( for example, 25x25cm), fully unfold it and follow the next steps. If it is large( 33x33 cm and larger), fold it four times, that is, in two additions.
2. Assemble the napkin with an accordion in steps of about 1-2 cm.
3. Fold in half and insert into the napkin. To folded in this way napkins looked, they should be a lot in one napkin.

Adding an angle is the simplest. In this way, a square napkin is folded diagonally to form an isosceles triangle, and then the triangle is folded over the median emerging from the corner opposite the base, that is, in half. This is done until the napkin does not take the desired size. Then the corners are inserted into the napkin.

A napkin folded in a fan is placed on a plate or on a table next to it. To do this, you need the following.

1. Fully unfold the napkin and fold it in half. The front side should be on the outside.
2. Assemble the paper with an accordion, leaving an ¼ part untouched. Caution: The first fold should be made down. The last fold should be made upward, that is, the accordion should be on the surface of the napkin, and not under it.
3. Bend the structure horizontally in half to make the accordion outside.
4. Take a free, not bent accordion, part at the bottom left corner and bend it, inserting it inside the folds. As a result, you should get an accordion with a leg at the back.

Think about how beautifully folding paper napkins to decorate the table? Follow the simple guidelines described in the article. They will allow, without spending a lot of time, to make the service original, intricate and interesting, which is sure to appreciate the guests and household.