How to fold a napkin herringbone?

Decorating the table for the holiday allows you to create a special atmosphere. At the same time, decoration often does not require knowledge of complex techniques: you can decorate the table with the help of the most ordinary things that exist in every home. During the winter holidays, table decoration should be special, appropriate for the season. It helps to maintain a festive atmosphere. A lot of joy to each guest will be delivered by a personalized tree on a plate. You can make it from just one napkin. Napkins in the form of a Christmas tree will be remembered for a long time by you and your guests.

To make these Christmas trees that will decorate the New Year's table, you will need:

• napkins (preferably green, if they are not present, ordinary white ones will do).
• various little Christmas toys.

There are many options for folding Christmas trees from napkins. In this part of the techniques applicable exclusively to paper versions. For other techniques use cloth napkins.

Here is an example of instructions for folding a bulk Christmas tree from a paper napkin for serving plates:

• Napkin folded four times.
• The first corner is bent up, but not completely (1 - 1.5 cm should be left to the edge).
• This operation must be repeated with another three corners. At this stage, you get a ladder.

• Turn the design over.
• Lateral parts need to be reduced in the center.
• Turn it over again so that the corner looks down.
• You need to bend the corner of the upper part, not smoothing the fold line.

Then it is repeated with all angles. This herringbone is suitable for serving plates. Such an algorithm will help to make a more voluminous Christmas tree out of a cloth napkin or a small towel.

The following option is only suitable for paper napkins. He is also extremely simple. To perform it is enough to use clear instructions:

• First, the napkin must be folded in half to make a rectangle.
• Both corners are folded on each side.
• The corners are folded into the center (the blank has become a square).
• Fold in half so that the corners are outside.

After these actions, the napkin must be given a triangular shape, forming folds. First it is done from the bottom right corner. Then - with the upper right. What happened is folded in half. So make a simple Christmas tree with their own hands for serving the New Year's table.

When creating Christmas trees from paper or fabric should not be a big deal. There are origami workshops, where step-by-step teach how to fold more complex shapes. You can find many schemes in print. Often the instruction becomes clear if you look at the photo. Christmas trees made of three-layer napkins will look especially beautiful.

Most of the instructions are quite simple, it won't take much time to create Christmas trees. You can use not only green napkins. This will give the holiday a more playful mood. There is a huge number of small toys with which you can decorate your creations.

Master class on creating a Christmas tree of napkins to decorate the table, see below.