Beautiful design of the table for the holiday can be a very interesting activity, and to serve the table correctly and at all the whole art. The table setting includes folding of napkins.
There are many ways how you can decorate the table with paper napkins. In addition to the aesthetic moment, you need to take into account the complexity of the method, because guests should easily deploy a napkin.
Serving of paper napkins has several options:
- You can fold napkins into different shapes. Lacy paper napkins can be folded with a tube, a triangle or an envelope;
- very often in sets of cutlery offer also rings for serving. In these rings pass a napkin and put it near the plate. It looks very stylish and harmonious, because the napkin rings have the same design as the cutlery;
- you can simply beautifully fold the napkins into a napkin, this is especially convenient if you are serving a table for a normal meal.
Serving of paper and tissue napkins has its own subtleties and rules:
- Specialists in this case recommend using square napkins for serving. If you purchased rectangular wipes, you can give them a square shape using several folds.
- If you are serving a table for an ordinary dinner, do not overload the serving with too fanciful figures from napkins. It is enough to fold the napkin four times.
- Do not forget to wash your hands thoroughly before serving the table. When folding and folding napkins, try to touch them as rarely as possible. These hygiene rules are not complex, but they should be followed.
- To serve the tea table, the napkin can be put into the cup handle. It is allowed and tie the spoon with a napkin.
How to decorate a table with paper napkins?
If you want to surprise your guests or just have time to experiment, try to make from a regular napkin a whole work of art. You can wring a flower from a paper napkin, there are a lot of simple options. Let's consider some variants, as it is possible to turn and fold paper napkins nicely:
- Plume. You need to fold the napkin diagonally. Next, connect the right and left corners of the resulting triangle to the vertex. Draw a horizontal axis in your mind and fold the resulting figure about it in half. Then lay the right corner in the left from the back of the napkin. Pull the top corners of the napkin in opposite directions.
- Fold the napkin in half in one direction. Wrap symmetrically down the two sides of the rectangle. Unfold the figure in such a way that you see the wrong side and make two ends at the ends, which you need to connect with each other. You will get a figure that looks like a megaphone.
- Here is another simple method. Fold the napkin four times. Bend the bottom down diagonally. Then wrap the right and left corners forward. The remaining projected corners bend back. Now fold back the napkin along the longitudinal axis and gently
Pull out the edges. - You can put a lily from a napkin. Again, fold the napkin diagonally and connect the right and left corners of the triangle with its vertex. The figure that turned out, fold in half with respect to the horizontal axis. The upper corner of the triangle should be turned away.
- Serving of paper napkins is a very difficult matter. In culinary technical schools, students are taught this magic by the real experts of their business. Try to understand a little bit about this matter, perhaps you will find yourself an exciting hobby, since serving the napkins is really very interesting.