How beautifully folded paper napkins in a napkin holder?

Paper napkins appeared more than half a century ago and have since settled tight in our lives. Different in color and structure, they not only help maintain cleanliness, but also decorate any lunch or dinner.

In addition to the decorative function, napkins play a very important role - keeping hands and face clean. Therefore, no matter how beautiful the composition of paper products looks, if necessary, it should be used. As a rule, they are combined with cloth napkins, which are spread on their knees, while paper ones are placed on the table in specially designed supports.

Terms of use:

• Those who do not use napkins look sloppy in the eyes of those present, so their use is mandatory.
• It is strictly forbidden to fill them with a belt or collar. If you need to wipe the lips - you need to take one cloth, fold it in half and blot the pollution.
• Wiping fingers, stroking, in any case do not have to unfold the napkin completely or wave it over the table.
• Paper products are disposable, so they can not be used repeatedly. That is, if necessary, each time you need to get a new paper.
• Used products should be crumpled and folded under the right edge of the plate, and after the meal should be put on the plate along with dirty cutlery.

You can and should use napkins not only at the moments of gala dinners. They should be on the table at any meal. Especially for such a case there are napkin holders that do not require effort or time to fold. You just need to open the pack, take out the napkins and put them as they are - in a neat pile. Some models have a holder that will help them keep a neat look.

Most napkin holders, found in everyday life, belong to the category of flat. They are designed for a small number of napkins, but by applying imagination and dexterity, you can increase their number, making it aesthetically pleasing at the same time. There are several ways to do this:

• Fan. To do this, bend each napkin diagonally to get a triangle. These triangles will need about 15-20 pieces depending on the width of your napkin fixture. You can form a fan by stacking the obtained figures in a pile and carefully sliding it to the side or laying them on each other with a slight offset (about a centimeter) so that they have a common angle. Then you should install the fan in the napkin holder.

• Bilateral fan. The principle of its manufacture, as in the simple. Simply, instead of one fan we add two and set them so that the vertices of the triangles look in different directions. If this or the previous method seems too simple to you, any flower or a bow, which you can do, using the origami scheme as a basis, will help to revive the composition.

• Crown. One of the simple schemes, based on all the same nine-folded triangles of napkins. Three pieces are laid with the edge folded inwards and three are added to the center. You can take more, the main condition is the symmetry of the teeth.
• If the napkin holder itself is of decorative value, you can simply fill it with diagonal folded napkins. For example, in the form the sails.
• Bird. The napkin should be folded diagonally, before it bent inward two opposite corners.The resulting blanks to lay each other not completely. Another one needs to be folded in a strip about a centimeter wide, starting at the corner and forming a head. It is better to use paper products of different colors to make the bird look more elegant.

Napkin holder there are many. Surely everyone has seen a form from the Soviet era called the “leaf”, where the napkins are stacked on top of each other, taking the shape of a cone. In the modern version they can look completely different, for example, like a book or a dancing girl.

It happens that the things you need at the moment break or they simply do not exist. In this case, do not be upset, because as a napkin you can use other items of dishes.

In a plastic or glass cup or another round low container with a wide neck, you can fold the napkins as follows:

• Rolling them in the form of a cone or horn in layers. The free corner of each subsequent layer can be combined with the previous one or shifted sideways to make it easier to take it.
• Make the cones narrower and set them next to each other.

• Wipes can be expanded in one layer so that you get one big square. Then they should be tightly rolled along one side and placed in a container next to each other. The quantity should correspond to the width of the glass or cup, so that they stand straight and do not fall. If the received tubules seem to be too long, they should be folded in half in half and set in such a state.
• More interesting tubes will become, if the unfolded paper surface to roll, starting from the corner. Then it will resemble a candle. It can be put personally in a glass or a narrow glass.
• Make them a fan or peacock. For the fan, you need to fold the stretched canvas with the harmonica, bend it in half and place it in a glass. The same stock could be a peacock tail. For his neck and head, you need to fold the two corners to the middle so that you get a rhombus. Fold the sides out of the corner in half again and tuck in the outer corner. Fold again in half lengthwise and bend the head. Attach to the tail.

If you have a low square bowl - use it. For this napkin fold in half. Stacked workpieces with a height equal to the width of the container are inserted into the bowl so that they are hung over the edge in a cascade. If you divide them into two parts, you get a pretty fountain.

A real decoration of the table will be a saucer or a vase with rosebuds. To create them, you need to follow the instructions step by step:

• Arrange the napkin in a single layer and fold it diagonally.
• From the place of the fold, wrap it once or twice at your discretion, so that there is material left to form the leg.
• The folded strip will be a bud, it needs to be rolled up, and the rest of it twisted to make a stem.
• The top of the bud should be slightly straightened, giving the shape of a flower.
• The resulting roses should be put in a suitable container. You can make leaves from green napkins, but even without them flowers look spectacular.

As you can see, laying napkins is no big deal. A few tips can help in this matter:

• It takes time to arrange even the simplest composition. This must be taken into account when setting the table. Facilitates the process of preliminary training.
• All items on the table should be combined. If you cannot choose a color, stop on white, because it fits everything.
• Since other people will use napkins, all manipulations must be performed with well-washed dry hands.
• Napkins and other dishes should be clean and dry.
• If something went wrong and you had to redo several times, it is better to get rid of the product, as the paper quickly loses tidiness.
• Wipes should be easily removed.For this reason, you should not fill them too closely, because when you take out one, the others will fall out.
• In order to avoid awkward situations, the capacity for napkins should be in close proximity to the person. When installing them, they usually count one copy for four people.

Master class on beautiful folding napkins, see below.