Bird Of Paradise Napkin Fold

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

2. Fold the napkin in half.

3. Fold the napkin in quarters.

4. Fold the napkin in half diagonally, creating a triangle.

5. Orient the triangle so the open tip is facing away from you.

6. Fold the right corner diagonally towards you laying it down along the centerline of the triangle, making a new tip pointing towards you. An iron can make this important fold a whole lot easier.

7. Do the same with the left corner, fold it diagonally toward you and press it down next to the previous fold. Now you have a diamond, you're rich! Yay!.

8. Fold the two "wings" that you just made in folds 6 and 7 under so that you have your original triangle shape back. Once again an iron can make a world of difference.

9. Fold the triangle in half by bringing the center seam towards you and allowing the ends to fall.

10. This bird's almost ready to fly, but first you must give it some feathers. While holding the base firmly to keep your folds together, pull up the four 'flaps' created by the napkin's corners.

Pretty cool fold, isn't it? It makes you wonder if there are people sitting around in basements performing experimental napkin folds while the rest of us are sleeping. This fold can be difficult if you don't use an iron or have a fairly stiff napkin so be prepared to put a few minutes into making each one.

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 facedown 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 middlecorner. 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.

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

9. 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 go

The Rosebud Napkin Fold

This sophisticated cloth napkin design benefits from stiff material or light starch. A hot iron will also make it easier to be exact.

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

2. Fold the napkin in half diagonally.

3. Orient the napkin so the open end points away from you. 4. Fold the far-right corner up diagonally so that the point rests on top of the far corner. The edge of this new flap should lay right on the center line.

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

6. Flip the napkin over while keeping the open end pointing away from you.

7. Fold the bottom of the napkin up about 3/4's of the way as shown and press the fold down well.

8. Flip the napkin over.

9. Curl both sites up so they meet in the middle and tuck one into the other.

10. Stand it up and straighten it out. If you have trouble keeping the points even, break out the iron and back track to the folds that mess up your alignment. Is it me or do these look like Egyptian he