Different Kinds of Napkin Folding

The Lily Goblet Fold

Here is an elegant goblet fold similar to the bird of paradise. A slightly starched or stiff napkin works best for this one and an iron can make the work much easier to do.

1. Lay the napkin face-down in front of you.

2. Fold the napkin in half and orient the open end toward you.

3. Fold the napkin into quarters.

4. Accordion-fold the entire napkin from corner to corner, keeping the open ends at the top.

5. Fold the napkin in half as shown.

6. Tuck the napkin into the glass of your choice.

7. Using your fingers, gently pull apart the loose corners sticking up so they are evenly distributed. If you're flaps don't want to stay where you put them, then ironing a little starch into the napkin will help.

The Napkin Ring Fan Fold

Fan folds are always a simple way of nicely presenting your napkins. This one uses a napkin ring to hold the base. Ooooohhhhhhh.1

. Lay the napkin face-down in front of you.2

. Fold the napkin in half and the re-open it, leaving a crease in the center.

3. Accordion-fold the napkin up to the crease, ensuring that the final fold rests nicely on the crease. This will help you keep the ends of the fan uniform.

4. Finish accordion-folding the napkin.

5. Fold the fan in half as shown.

6. Insert the folded end into a napkin ring. It's a fan suitable for a samurai. A hungry samurai.

The Crown Napkin Fold

Do you want your dinner guests to feel like royalty but have no red carpet? Treat them like kings and give them all crowns! Then you can use this napkin to wipe the cheese out of that introduction.This napkin folding design just doesn't work well without a little starch in the cloth, if it's sagging it's ugly so take your time and get it right.

1. Lay the napkin face-down in front of you.

2. Fold the napkin in half diagonally.

3. Orient the napkin so the open ends are pointing away from you.

4. Fold the right-corner up so that the point rests directly on top of the middle-corner. The edge of this new flap should lay on the center line of the napkin.

5. Repeat step four on the other side, bringing the left-most corner up to meet the middle-corner, creating a diamond shape.

6. Fold the bottom of the napkin up about 2/4's of the way and press this fold down well.7. Fold the smaller triangle down so the point rests on the near edge of the napkin. Press.

7. curl the left and right sides of the napkin up so they meet in the middle and tuck one into the other.

8. Stand it up and tug at it where needed to even it up and round it out. If your napkins are too limp then think of starch as napkin viagra and make them good and stiff.