Wipes for serving a table

Decorate a solemn lunch can be paper or tissue wipes. The main thing is to fold from them original shapes and know the rules how to use napkins at the table

The art of competent table setting, unfortunately, today is available to a little. Nevertheless, it is worth spending a small amount of personal time to decorate the festive table with paper or tissue napkins, folded in the form of elegant, and sometimes funny figures. 

How to use napkins for table setting

Presence of napkins on the table – guarantee of purity and accuracy. Of course, if guests and hosts know how they correctly use. There are several rules that must be followed by followers «Good tone».

First, there is no need to form data items in a difficult way, covering the table for everyday lunch. More often they are just folded several times either fold in the form of a roll. Exquisite figures – the prerogative of the title festive feast.

Secondly, «Good tone» It is considered to use products from fabric, sew which can be independently. If the paper variant is selected as the solemn necessity, cutting these setting items is not recommended, it is a movieton.

Thirdly, with the help of paper, as well as fabric napkins for serving the table, you can protect the clothes from the sauce drops, getting into the lips or wipe your hands. Typically, the subject of serving is deployed and put on his knees, having twice. But to drink a corner of the fabric for the collar A brought up man will not.

Staining hands, they wipe them about the top of the subject, practically not shifting it from the knees. To get into the lips, the fabric is carefully lifted by both hands and gently bring up the middle of the upper half, without tilting the head. It is not recommended to serve item to use as a towel or nasal handkerchief.

And finally, having completed the meal, the napkin used is put on the right side of its cutlery. If she accidentally fell on the floor, you just need to ask the owner of the house to give a new.

You can independently sew napkins for serving. However, at present, the selection of this component is very wide, and you can easily acquire both paper and plated options. The main thing is to properly prepare the service item.

Which napkins can be used for serving

It all depends on the material from which the required need for a solemn lunch is made or dinner. As a rule, the perfectly clean and well-headed pieces of the canvase are used, the size of which is no more than 60×60 cm and at least 24×24 cm.

Most often there are napkins for serving the table, the sizes of the sides of which are equal to 35, 40-A and 50 cm. Therefore, before starting to fold the fabric into the original figures, you should make sure that its dimensions are sufficient to create this particular composition.

If it is decided to use object items, it is recommended to take a web from a mixture of natural and synthetic fibers. For example, one of the best options is 50-70% polyamide and 50-30% cotton. The canvas, made only from natural threads, in this case is unsuitable, as it is strongly deformed when washing and gives a significant shrinkage.

If you use 100% synthetic canvas, the service of serving will be too tough, poorly absorbing sauce drops, fat, remaining on lips and arms during meals. Therefore, guests risk blot their clothes. If it is not possible to purchase or sew mixed tissue products, better stock paper.

Mercharge details must be preaching. It is better to do it a couple of days before a solemn event. Otherwise, traces of the chairs will remain on the canvas, which will defy the appearance of the products. The starchy cloth is perfectly holding the shape and give the table a truly solemn view.

The easiest way to starch fabric, using ready-made starch for cooking, which is constantly on sale. 1.5 Article. L. substances need to dissolve in 500 ml of cool water, mixing well and breaking lumps.

Skipping 1 liter of water, the starch solution is added to it and, mixing the liquid, remove the saucepan from the plate at the first signs of boiling. Products made of fabrics withstand in solution to full wetting and without twisting with power, and slightly unscrewed, send to dry without using clothespins.

It is recommended to iron an accumulated material as soon as water. Otherwise, the fabric will be overwhelmed, and it will be difficult to smooth up. Preparing the product You can try to fold square starchy pieces of fabric in original figures.

Several options how to fold napkins for serving a table

The proposed options will not require special skills. Enough to stick to a specific scheme to perform neat figures capable of complementing the decor of the solemn meal.

«Leaf» can be used for paper and tissue products. Folded in this way, the figure is customary to lay on the plate. How to assemble such «Figure»? 

• The product is diagonally;
• Starting from the top edge of the resulting triangle, the canvas collect «accordion», Alternately performing the bend up and down;
• Direction of movement – from the base to the top;
• Next, you need to fold «Harmoshka» in half;
• Corners drive together and slightly twisted to save the form. The folds are slightly straightening, giving the product to the external resemblance to the sheet.

For fabric napkins, the option is perfect – «Tulip in a glass»: 

• The fabric is folded in half:
• The resulting rectangle corners wrap up to the middle so that the triangle turned out;
• The triangle is turned over the opposite side and again convert the angles to the middle part. It turns out an extended rhombus with a bottleneck at the base;
• The acute base angle is folded in half;
• The sides are slightly twisted and the form formed is gently embedded in a glass bent side. Petals «Tulip» Praise.

It looks no less effectively «Fan with a ring in a wine gland». Use better paper napkins: 

• The product is folded on the table;
• Starting from the lower or top edge, the paper is folded in the form «Harmoshki», trying to perform the same in the size of the bend;
• Received «Harmoshka» Geeks in half and draw folded part through a small paper ring. «Fan» placed in a fuaster and carefully straighten.

You can decorate the table by folding the fabric napkins in the form «Roses»: 

• The starch and fairly thin tissue is spread on the surface of the table, up the face of the face;
• The fork put the cloth to the center of the napkin and begin to twist the fabric, promoting its folds between the tooth;
• Thus, the tissue is rotated in one direction until the helix is ​​obtained;
• After feeding the plug, the twisted canvas are compressed in the palm of the palm of the way to prevent the spirals to spin;
• Spiral put in place, intended for napkin. The cloth slightly straightens and turns out the original «the Rose». Especially effectively looks like a product, if using a monochon colored cloth.

Easy way to gracefully fold the cloth – perform a figure called «Asian fan»: 

• Linen fold on the surface face up. Down bend 1/4 part of the vertex;
• The product is turned over with the involving side and bend up to the top 1/3 of the Niza;
• After that, the shape must be folded in half along the vertical line;
• Now the napkin is folded in the form «Harmoshki». There should be 5 smooth folds;
• Open sides are tightly clamped in hand and pull out folds hidden in depth. Stretching and fixing the folds in opposite directions, «fan» dismiss.

Table setting table with paper napkins is not as complicated as it may seem. Several workouts and it will be possible to decorate the feast of incredibly elegant or, on the contrary, solemn elements of the decor.