How beautiful to fold napkins in a napkin holder?

A beautifully served table is a guarantee of guests' good appetite, their admiration and respect. Favorable first impression will support a good mood during the whole dinner party. Napkins seem to be insignificant detail against the background of the overall magnificence of the serving, but if they are not presented correctly, they can spoil everything.

Unsuccessfully folded napkins "jump out" from the vase, fall into salads, sauce, stain the snow-white tablecloth, confuse the guest, darken the evening. To prevent this from happening, you need to approach the filling of the napkin in all seriousness.

Table setting occupies the minds of humanity for two and a half millennia, since when the Greeks and Romans organized their feasts. Their tables were decorated with garlands of flowers, and food was served on expensive dishes. The modern housewife, in anticipation of the guests, also uses the best dishes, tablecloths, napkins, uses small tricks that make the dinner really enjoyable.

There are certain design rules:

• The topic of the meeting should be reflected in the table setting. The official event involves simple and strict decoration. Home celebration allows bright dishes, decorations and small things taken in the family. For friends, a warm atmosphere is created without lush excesses and too expensive dishes, which can be broken, creating discomfort in communication. Table setting for a romantic evening soaked with tender, light tones. Candles and napkins in the form of flowers or birds are indispensable attributes of such meetings.
• Choosing for serving dishes, tablecloths, appliances, napkins and decorations, their compatibility (color, design) should be taken into account, then you will get a harmoniously laid table.
• Do not forget about the piece of furniture. The table must accommodate all the guests, defining each personal space so that it does not have to push each other with elbows.

• No matter how old the tablecloth is, it should look like new. Even the most expensive dishes will look fancy on a sloppy canvas. Do not allow too long sagging edges of the tablecloth, a maximum - to the seats of chairs.
• A table that is not decorated with flowers loses its festive look. Plants should be selected without the smell, so they do not compete with the aroma of food.
• Dishes and appliances are selected according to the menu. It can be serving for a sweet table or a complete set for the first, second and third courses. The basic rules: the fork (teeth up) is to the left of the plate, the knife (blade inside) is to the right.

• An important tableware is a napkin holder. Paper napkins set for general use, textiles are next to the plate for each individually. They have a different purpose. The first help during lunch to keep your hands and lips clean, and the second take care of clothes: they cover their knees.

Standard rules that should be followed during table setting help create a festive mood.

It would be boring to look at the table with napkins casually stuck in a glass and cloths laid out under the plates. A properly served table doesn’t have trifles, everything is important to it. It's nice to see real origami in a napkin holder, and a textile flower at the plate. Everything can be done by hand, and a lot of ways.

For a beautiful presentation of paper napkins, you can put them in a glass: roll it up with an accordion, fold it in half, fix the bend, and place it in a glass fan with a fan. Such an improvised napkin holder needs to be delivered to each guest.

The cloth is rolled up until a strip four centimeters wide is released. Along the length of the strip, the napkin is folded with an accordion, fixed at the base and unwrapped with a beautiful fan. Guests will be pleasantly surprised if you arrange a table with such delight.

A simple, understandable form may be suitable for a restrained dinner.

The step-by-step instruction is: to make the figure face up, the fabric should be laid out inside out. Angles bend to the center. Turn the resulting square and tighten the corners to the middle. Turn over and bend the edges again. With a sharp end to send up, get a diamond. Pull the right corner so that it comes out, do it with the other corners. Carefully smooth out the figure with your hands.

Beautifully look folded cutlery or flowers in pockets of textile napkins. Make them easy. A napkin made of cloth by folding should be divided into four equal squares, fixed with an iron of the bend and unfolded again. Pull the corner of the lower left square to the center. Do the same with the upper right corner, but do not go deep.

Then you need to carefully fold the napkin in half vertically. At the top it will be tucked inside. In the same way, the lower tip should be turned out. Neatly folded fabric forms a square. Having turned it upside down, it should be folded twice into a vertical rectangle. Pocket ready, it remains only to fill it with content, including fantasy.

Figures of fish from paper napkins can be used on children's parties. To understand how to assemble them, you should consider the process in stages. The napkin must be double folded diagonally, deployed. Identify the centers on the side lines of the square, bring them together in a triangle. Along the axis, alternately fold each part, bring back the right edge first, then the opposite one. The left corner to bring to the right diagonal, cover the right edge of the triangle. Expand the triangle reverse side. Get a fish.

A cloth made of thin fabric rolled triangle. A wide part of the tuck in the direction of the angle to the middle of the workpiece, exactly origami "ship". Fold both ends of the "ship", carefully tucked into the bends. Carefully straighten the bag, creating a round shape. You can put nice things in it.

Herringbone napkins will perfectly support the winter theme not only for the New Year. They can decorate the table throughout the winter.

A tree will be more natural if the fabric is green. So, you should fold the napkin twice, each time turning the layer up about two centimeters. Having turned a product, it is necessary to turn corners to the center. The resulting triangle must be carefully turned over, and then to form a Christmas tree, bending each layer and setting it back to the previous one. The tree can be put on a plate, beautifully decorated to your taste.

Napkins are important for the decoration of the table, being an essential element of hygiene.Equally, they can become an element of decor, as well as make an impression about the taste and upbringing of the hostess. While maintaining the overall serving style, the correct color is selected. If the complexity of the taste, you can choose white. They are universal, suitable for any subject of the holiday.

Bright colors love children, red love. So, red can make accents during a romantic evening. For the New Year will suit green, blue and silver tones.

Cloths napkins better to choose linen, ironed and starchy to crunch. They can be from the same fabric as the tablecloth, match its color or differ by several shades.

Napkins are not as simple as they seem. There are behavioral norms, that is, special rules of etiquette at the table:

• Textile napkin can be rolled up into a tube, fixed with beautiful elements, wrapped with an unusual figure - in short, it can be a work of art that is terrible to touch. Etiquette says: if you file a napkin, it should be used - be sure to deploy and put it on the destination.
• It is better to unfold the canvas after the owners, but not before the dish is served.

• Napkin laid out on his knees. Modern etiquette does not provide for its location behind the gate.
• The canvas can be folded in half, if it is large, but to prevent hanging from the knees.
• Getting up from the table, the napkin is left to the left of the plate or on the chair.
• Paper napkins at the end of dinner fold into a plate.

Table setting can look elegant, and if you work on it inspired, even napkins will be works of art:

• Lotus out napkins inspire the tea ceremony. I just want to bring it to Japanese perfection.
• The red heart is easy. It is appropriate to save such hearts for a romantic evening, to use as an addition to the festive table on Valentine's Day.
• Napkins, folded in the form of colored bananas, decorate the children's table.

• Swans like kids. In love, they also fit, because these birds symbolize loyalty.
• Napkin folded simple and clear, nothing more. Handle from an inverted cup served as a napkin holder.
• Delicate wedding napkins option - a real decoration for a high moment.
• A blue paper tulip is beaten with cutlery.

6 ways to beautifully fold napkins, see the following video.