How beautiful to fold the napkins?

Everything should be great on the festive table! The best service, beautiful appliances, elegant tablecloth - every little thing indicates that an important event is taking place in the house. Napkins in this process belongs to a very important place. They can also decorate the most modest serving, and spoil the impression of an exquisite service and luxurious appliances. About how beautifully folded napkins, we will talk in our article.

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Two words about the intricacies of serving

The delicacies of serving have been formed for many centuries. In aristocratic houses, sometimes such things were used, the purpose of which modern man does not even guess. The use of this or that cookware, as well as appliances and other items, depends on many factors:

• of the country where the celebration takes place;
• motive;
• age of hosts and guests;
• taste and aesthetic predilections of the hostess and guests.

Important! Classic Italian dinner differs from Russian or English not only by what lies on the plates, but also by serving items. Chinese and Japanese traditions, although they found a lot of adherents in different countries of the world, are still very different from European ones. But these or other items of hygiene are used everywhere.

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Types of napkins

It just so happens that the European tradition involves the use of napkins. There are a lot of them, they differ:

• material;
• designation;
• color;
• size.

If we talk about the material, then mainly apply two types:

• fabric;
• paper.

Fabric

Fabric wipes are square shaped. They serve that the guest does not stain clothes:

• Many hang such a handkerchief on the chest, thrusting a corner under the collar. This method is often used in the environment of the Russian petty nobility and philistinism.
• However, the rules of secular etiquette prescribed to spread the napkins from tissue to your knees. This is done at the moment when the first dish appeared on the table.

Important! In modern serving, napkin-shawls are also used. When preparing the table, they are usually folded four times and placed next to the plate or under the appliances. If a guest needs to go out during lunch, he leaves this object on the back of a chair or near his plate. But in some circles there is another rule: if a person gets up from the table and puts a napkin to the left of the plate, it means that the dinner is over. But what you should not do - it's defiantly wipe with a napkin of the lips and hands.

With regard to folding methods, some options are suitable for paper and fabric, but only those where the ability to keep the shape does not play a big role.

Important! At a holiday for young children, tissue napkins can be hung on the chest.

Paper napkins

These paper squares, triangles or rectangles are truly versatile. They wipe their lips and protect clothing from stains, and lay them on the table as decorations. Most often on sale there are square napkins folded in four.

You can arrange them on the table in several ways:

• in napkins;
• on plates;
• under the instruments;
• in glasses.

There are several rules that it makes sense to consider when drawing a table with napkins:

1. Despite the fact that decorating the festive table gives the owner the opportunity to show creativity, folding napkins should be beautiful, but just so that guests do not have to work with them for a long time.
2. All items of serving should be in harmony among themselves in color.
3. The form is better to choose with regard to age and reason - the New Year's table for adult guests is always very different from the one that is prepared for a children's holiday.
4. You need to prepare the napkins in advance so that you can quickly cover the table.

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What color to choose?

Of course, tissue or paper napkins for serving the table must match the color to the tablecloth and to the service. But this does not mean that if the tablecloth is blue, then what lies under the appliances or stands in glasses should be the same. On the contrary, it's better to think about the combinations of colors, considering the reason:

• For the Day of all lovers, red and pink are most suited, symbolizing passion, beauty and joy.
• Traditional New Year colors - green and gold, but in principle, suitable for any shades - dark blue and silver, too, will look quite good.
• Halloween is a combination of the darkest night of the year and pumpkins, so black and orange are just perfect.
• If you are going to "wash your feet" a newborn, the colors should be gentle. It is accepted to girls "to appropriate" all shades of pink, and to the boy - blue. But this is not necessary. Nowadays there are so many paper napkins for decorating a table of all kinds that you can easily choose something suitable for the occasion, but original - for example, squares with flowers or toys, too, will do.

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Do I need to cut paper napkins?

Sometimes paper squares are cut into two or four triangles. To design a festive table, this method is not very suitable - well, except for the youngest guests. But the napkins, which are always on the table, can be cut. They put them in the napkin so that the corners stick out.

And here you can cut the edges with figured scissors for a festive table. It is made extremely simply - folded four squares is cut off strictly along the edge, and then folded up by a fan or a tube.

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Simple ways of

If you seriously think about how beautiful it is to fold paper napkins on a festive table, you can easily find the schemes in any origami book. Uncomplicated flowers, figures of animals and birds approach. But there are several ways to prepare paper squares, which do not require special skills in working with paper.

How nice to put napkins in a napkin?

Before folding the napkins to lay the table, the paper squares of the
need to be straightened. For example, this should be done if you are going to put them in the
cup corner:

1. Spread the square on the table.
2. Turn it into a right-angled triangle, bending it diagonally. The longest side is the base, it is in this case the hypotenuse.
3. Put the triangle hypotenuse to yourself.
4. Fold it in a tube, holding one corner and screwing a napkin on three fingers.
5. You should have a pipe with an even lower edge, the upper one will be uneven.
6. Slightly bend the top edge outward.
7. Put your creation in a glass.

Garnish

The easiest way to beautifully fold the napkin, which is suitable for any occasion.

Important! If the napkins are small, they need to be fully spread out, and those that are 33x33 cm( and even larger) are best left as is, that is folded four times.

Procedure:

1. Place the square in front of you.
2. Fold the left edge 1-2 cm to yourself.
3. Fold it the same 1-2 cm from yourself.
4. Again bend the edge to yourself.
5. Add the whole square.

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Flowers from paper

Flowers have always been a decoration of the table - whether live or paper. Why not follow this tradition? Worthy answer to the question of how beautifully folded paper napkins on the festive table - to fold a lily or lotus.

Option 1. Lily

Such napkin embellishments can be made of paper and thick fabric:

1. Spread the square face up.
2. Fold it diagonally, aligning the opposite corners. Right angle at you will be at the top, sharp - right and left.
3. Raise the sharp corners and align them with the straight lines - you will get a diamond.
4. Place the diamond at an acute angle to yourself.
5. Add it by aligning the top and bottom corners, - you will get a triangle.
6. Bend the vertex of this triangle to yourself.
7. Insert the left corner into the right( or vice versa).

Option 2. Lotus

This option is only for paper napkins. To fold the napkins nicely, experiment first with one:

1. Spread the square.
2. Join all the vertices of the corners in its center - you have a smaller square.
3. Reconnect all vertices of the corners in the middle. The tops of the corners are folded down.
4. Turn over the shape.
5. Pull all the corners to the back.
6. Slightly pull the back side - you should get three-dimensional petals.

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Handbag for

devices Folding napkins for table setting also serves to make the devices look attractive and effective. One of the options is a handbag for a fork, spoon and knife:

1. Spread the square face to the table, one of the sides should be right in front of you.
2. Fold the napkin, combining the right and left sides, - you will get a rectangle, located vertically.
3. Fold the rectangle in half, combining the short sides - we have a four-layered square.
4. The free angle of the top layer bend to the center.
5. Do the same with the bottom layer.

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Heart

Turn the square into a triangle by folding it diagonally. And put it with the long side facing you:

1. The left corner is aligned with the top of the straight.
2. Right - also align with the same point.
3. Turn over the workpiece.
4. Fold the top of the right corner to see the other two corners.
5. Closed sides bend to the middle( about a third).
6. Blunt corners on the left and right bend inwards.

The heart as a decoration for a table of napkins is ready!

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Peacock tail

Peacock's tail is a great way to decorate a table with napkins. Suitable for both children's and adult holidays:

1. Square the square face up.
2. Fold it in half, aligning the right and left sides.
3. Bend the strip into the "accordion", leaving it smooth about a third of the length.
4. Fold the workpiece in half so that the "accordion" is on the left.
5. Straighten the "feathers".
6. Straighten the part with a corner - you will get a stand.

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Veer

Before you can nicely arrange napkins in this simple way, take care of the stands. It can be, for example, a cardboard ring. To do this:

1. Cut out a colored strip of 5-8 cm in length and 4-6 cm in width.
2. Make holes, retracting 0.5 cm from each short side.
3. Insert a short lace into the holes and tie it with a bow.

Important! As a lace, you can use gold or silver thread, synthetic twine, etc.

Folding the fan

After making the stands, you can beautifully fold the paper napkins on the table - step by step it will look like this:

1. Take the square folded four times( the way they are more oftenall and sold).
2. Put it in a closed corner to yourself.
3. Slightly curl the left edge to yourself, to get a blunt triangle on top.
4. Fold this same edge from yourself - it turns out something like "accordion", but not strips, and triangles with a common top.
5. Bend the entire square in this way, put the fan in the holder.

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Herringbone

How to fold napkins on a festive table, if the New Year or Christmas is on the nose? Of course, you will help out the Christmas tree. This method requires napkins folded four times - the way they lie in the package.

The first stage - the trunk:

1. Put such a square of one of the open sides to yourself.
2. Fold one side( for example, the right side) so that 1 cm or so remains to the opposite edge.
3. Do the same with two sides - opposite and upper. You will get a wide strip with an open edge.
4. Turn over the workpiece.
5. Fold the right side until the middle.
6. Turn the opposite side too, so that its edge closes the slices of the right.

The second stage - the crown

It is made of two or three napkins folded four times:

1. Put one square open angle to yourself.
2. Fold the top and second layers inside.
3. Turn over the workpiece.
4. Fold in two more layers - you will get a triangle.
5. Put it with the long side facing you.
6. Insert inside the "trunk" - a strip that you already have.
7. Do one or two more such triangles.

Important! These napkins are placed next to the plates, and on them - for example, appliances.

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We are preparing a children's holiday

Simplicity and joy is the motto of any celebration, the main participants of which are pre-school and junior schoolchildren. Translated into the language of the home "maitre d'hotel" it means that it is best to take bright colored napkins, fold them in the simplest way and put them in wooden or plastic napkins.

To do this:

1. Take the napkins of several saturated colors - for example, red, yellow, green and blue;they do not need to be straightened.
2. Fold them with an accordion.
3. Put in napkins, alternating shades - the child will not only get pleasant emotions, but also will remember the colors of the rainbow.

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We cover the table with one-time instruments

Ornate porcelain sets are rarely taken to the woods or to the country house. Single ware in many ways more convenient, and fuss with her less. But who said that the table, covered with paper plates and plastic forks, should look bad? Not at all. First, dishes can be bought very different, and it is very cheap. Secondly, the instruments can be selected by color, and the rest, too.

And how to lay out the napkins? The simplest versions:

• fold them with a corner;
• roll up the tubes.

Option 1

You can take a simple, but bright and suitable for the nature of the celebration of napkins, just arrange them in napkins, folded corner. The reason can be emphasized with the help of special stickers - fir-trees, pumpkins, etc.

Option 2

Collapsible napkin tube is easy, for this enough folded quadruple simply wrap around two or three fingers. And you can tie each tube with a colored lace - for example, synthetic twine or ribbons, which are usually bandaged gifts.

In this article, we have offered you some ideas on how to beautifully fold the napkins. But in these ways you can not limit yourself - practice different options for decorating the table with napkins at each event, and you will soon notice how cleverly it goes out and you will easily start experimenting with serving.