Meeting the New Year in each family is a special holiday, which everyone is looking forward to. Preparations for his meeting begin long before its occurrence. Each housewife certainly plans what dishes will be cooked and how will decorate the festive table. One of the most interesting and diverse elements of table setting is napkin decoration.
Features of design and serving
On the table napkins look very beautiful, decorated in a certain way with different ideas on color and shape. They are a peculiar decoration of the table for the New Year and give a special charm and elegance to the celebration. A huge number of various folding schemes allows you to choose the most attractive option.
Most housewives focus on dishes and their diversity, forgetting that a beautifully decorated table is not only festive salads and champagne. Not the last role is played by such nuances as a tablecloth, dishes, on which food is laid out, as well as napkins, appliances and many other details.
Decorating with napkins is a creative process that requires attention and an appropriate mood, which does not stand in a hurry, so you need to start it in advance and always with love.
Folding methods
To beautifully fold paper napkins with your own hands and decorate the table with them, you need to imagine what kind of shape you need to get. There are many specific sequences of folding, at the end of which, if you fold the napkin appropriately, it will take the final shape.
When folding it should be noted that all actions must be done carefully, and folded napkins should not look crumpled. For this purpose, when folding products made of cloth used iron, which smooth the surface. It is better to iron even wet products, after which they will look even and smooth.
Do not fold with wet or dirty hands.
Also, for a particular design option for the New Year's table, the products are made from fabrics of various colors, taking into account the overall color scheme of the room design and festive themes.
To get a napkin in the shape of a Christmas tree, you must gently fold the napkin four times, wrap the free edge with a triangle, bend each corner and decorate the top with a bow.
To get a two-color Christmas tree, you just need to spread out a round serving bicolor napkin with the colored side inwards. It is necessary to leave a small protruding edge. After that, turn the resulting shape over and fold the big tail along the side right line. Then you can put it under the appliances.
Very interesting folding in the form of "the French version." This method is very common in the classic table setting. In this case, it is necessary to fold a square cloth made of paper into a square in the usual way, after which the top three corners with the same gap bend down. Then the left side is folded over and the cutlery can be put in the resulting pockets.
Tips and tricks
Using such an attribute of a festive table design as napkins for decoration, it should be noted that they should be in harmony with the decor elements and correspond to the basic color scheme.They can be put in different places on the table and in a different design, which will emphasize sophistication and create a home comfort.
If table setting involves the use of portions, then in this case napkins are placed on them or between forks and knives.
The figured folded napkins can also be placed in a special glass or fougere.
Successful examples and options
Beautifully folded napkins are an important element of serving. Fold them in different ways - and your table will look even more appetizing.
Herringbone
Such a Christmas tree made of fabric is easy to do in just one minute, and no scissors or glue will be needed for this. We recommend to take napkins only green, like the original, but, of course, the colors can be very diverse.
It is necessary to fold the fabric four times and turn to open corners. Next, bend the overlap edge of one another and turn the napkin. On the reverse side we connect the corners and turn over again. Now we fill both edges for the previous one, at the same time bending them up, and the wonderful Christmas tree is ready.
Christmas candle
This method is simple to perform and at the same time looks very stylish on the Christmas table.
The course of work is as follows:
- you need to fold the fabric, connecting the opposite corners;
- roll up the roller and turn down one edge perpendicular;
- you need to wrap the remaining napkin around it;
- Place folded fabric on a plate.
Stand for nominal cards
If a large number of guests gather at the festive table, then this method is ideal for serving.
To begin, fold the fabric along in such a way as to get three identical parts. Next you need to turn it horizontally and fold the corners of the airplane. Now we turn over the fabric and twist the free edges with a roller, turn it over again and turn down the edge. In the resulting rollers will be secured with a registered card.
Hat of Saint Nicholas
For this method it is better to use white cloth. We fold the napkin diagonally and make a rhombus, wrapping the extreme corners to the top. Now we turn over the napkin and, in order to get the “hat” field, we turn down the edge. We connect the ends on the reverse side, tucking them into each other.
Bow
The easiest and very effective way. We make a rectangle out of fabric, bend the edge and center in the middle of the tape. We hide the edges of the ribbon under the bow.
Cockscomb
If a linen napkin is folded in the form of a cockscomb, it will look beautiful both on a plate and directly on the tablecloth. Fabric before folding should starch, then the ends of the ridge will not unfold.
Fold the napkin four times, and one end must be bent up. Bend the right and left sides, aligning them in the center. Bend the two long ends of the triangle formed back. This will be the basis. Now, the left and right halves of the new triangle are retracted and finally we form a comb, pulling the triangles upwards.
Lily flower
Napkins folded in this way are usually very successful. White cloth is recommended for this method. The plates of all those present need to be decorated with such a snow-white flower.
- Bend a square napkin diagonally, then bend the two corners of the resulting triangle to the top.
- The napkin again became a square, the lower corner of which needs to be bent, and the end bend down.
- Now, holding with two hands, gently turn the napkin upside down.
- Bend the side corners, tucking one into the other, and again turn the other side.
- Now we split the corners to the side, forming petals.
Napkins, folded in an unusual way, can be decorated with various details - then the festive table will look even brighter and more original.
Felt
An interesting idea - decoration for napkins made of felt.
To make it, do the following steps:
- Cut a pattern (you can print or draw it at will) from a piece of cardboard. Now it needs to be put on felt, cut around and cut.
- We make an incision in one end of the shape of felt so that the second can be passed through it.
- Three notches can be glued to the notched side.
- Now wrap the napkin in your decoration and slide one edge into the notch on the other.
The result was an original Christmas napkin.
All of these methods look stylish and easy to perform. You can easily repeat them or make your own changes. A table served this way will definitely support your Christmas mood.
For step-by-step instructions on how to fold a Christmas tree out of a napkin for a New Year's table, see the video.