Napkin Folding and a Little Book Review

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Napkin folding is an old art and there are sooo many styles to go with your tablescapes and to go with

whatever meal you are serving.
Today I thought I’d share just a couple of napkin folding
techniques and the book I found with you all
in a little book review.

I love looking for books and tea and etiquette books are
BIG on my list of “must haves” so when I found a newish
book on folding napkins which could help me
with setting a pretty table
I was all over it.

The photograph above is from a tea I photographed recently and here I’ve created a cute little floral napkin pocket ~
one of the napkin folding ideas I found in this
exciting little book.

Let’s get to this book review and tutorial
shall we?

🙂

*This is the original printing. There may be minor differences in the two.

Credited to Liz Belton, et al

Here a napkin style called The Pocket makes an informal tea table fun!

The Art of Napkin Folding

by Liz Belton and the editors of Ryland, Peters and Small

London and New York
rating: 5 stars
(an updated version ~ new cover ~ not credited to Ms. Belton, et al )

*This is the second publishing with some changes. I purchased the first printing.

I found this book to be charming with full high resolution color photographs throughout showing detailed step-by-step

instructions on creating more than a dozen folded napkin styles.

Each photograph shows how to recreate each napkin style and

is very thorough with the details.

My favorite of all the photographs ~ Love this kitchen prep photo with the Fleur de Lys napkins guarding the silver.

My nemesis has been the above photographed… the

Fleur de Lys.

I have another book written by the late Diana, Princess of Wales’
former butler Paul Burrell and I never could get this napkin
to work so I’m particularly glad that this book

does the job.

When I was trying several years ago to recreate the Fleur de Lys from Mr. Burrell’s book there must have been a step missing.

For this reason only is why I gave it four stars out of five.

Otherwise, for interesting tidbits about royal life and some wonderful stories about the princess and Mr. Burrell’s

time spent in her service ~ this is a lovely book and

I do enjoy reading it!

Both books are wonderful for the

aforementioned reasons.

In the Royal Manner:

Expert Advice on Etiquette and Entertaining

from the Former Butler to Diana, Princess of Wales

Grand Central Publishing, London

rating: 4 stars

I am an Amazon affiliate but any purchases you make here won’t cost you

a cent more. Please see my full disclosure here.

So, on to the today’s tutorial…

🙂

How to fold a Fleur de Lys napkin

*Starch and iron your 20″ x 20″ or similar

square napkin flat.

Press by folding to lightly create four squares

for future guide.

Open out and iron flat.

{The lines of each square should still be slightly visible.}

*Turn the napkin on the diagonal and fold the top point down

to meet the bottom point creating a large triangle.

*Bring both outer triangle points down to meet the bottom
point ~ as seen above.
Lightly press as you go through each step.

*Now fold each of these top points back towards the top.

*Fold the lower points up to touch the above folds
then fold up again a second time ~ as shown here.

*Fold a third time creating what looks like an old paper hat

many of us created out of newspaper as a kid.

Press again.

*Flip the napkin over and continue with the next step:

*Fold the left side and the right sides in by 1/3 each

and slip the right side into the pocket created

by the rolls of the left side ~ above.

*Pick up the napkin and round out the bottom to

make the napkin stand.

*Turn the napkin around to face you and fluff the

lily’s top “petal” and pull down the side petals.

That’s all there is to it.

Turns out it wasn’t so difficult after all.

🙂

The editors of The Art of Napkin Folding show even

more photographs than I’ve recreated here but I didn’t

want to spoil the book for you!

The Art of Napkin Folding shares tutorials for

napkins for contemporary occasions as well as for

classically vintage stylings.

The editors discuss traditional napkin sizes and the

history of napkins and relates napkin use to what occasions

certain sized napkins are used today.

Funny names for some of the napkin foldings are:

the water lily

the fan

guard of honor

the tuxedo

the rose

and perfect points

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I hope you’ve enjoyed this little napkin post and

I look forward to creating more napkins in future

tablesettings with you in mind.

🙂

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