Cloth napkins come in different sizes tailored for specific uses such as beverage, luncheon, or dinner napkins. Larger napkins are meant to catch more spillage from more food and drinks served. There are etiquette rules for using napkins like waiting for the host to unfold theirs first and folding it to just cover one's lap. The document describes different ways to fold napkins into decorative shapes like pyramids, bishops hats, candle rolls, fans, roses, birds of paradise, and for holding silverware.

1. Napkin Folding
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2. About Napkins
 Today, discriminating hosts and hostesses have a wide variety
of napkin products from which to select.
 For formal dining, there is the cloth napkin, the paper napkin
being reserved for more informal settings.
 Cloth napkins come in several sizes, each size tailored to a
specific use.
 A beverage napkin, used when serving drinks and hors
d’oeuvres, like most cloth napkins, is square, about five inches
to each side.
 A luncheon napkin is a couple of inches larger, and a dinner
napkin larger still.
 The theory, evidently, is that the more food and drink that is
served, the more potential there is for spillage, so the bigger
the napkin must be to catch it.

3. Napkin Etiquettes
 Rule 1: When you’re given a napkin, use it. Don’t let it sit
beside your plate.
 Rule 2: Wait for the host to pick up and unfold his napkin
before you do the same with yours.
 Rule 3: If the napkin is larger than your lap, fold it such that
it just covers your lap.
 Rule 4: In polite society, movements at the dinner table tend
to be small, so don’t make any ostentatious displays like
wildly shaking the napkin to open it.
 Rule 5: Don’t wait for the food to be served before you open
your napkin.
 Rule 6: Should you have to leave the table during the meal,
leave the napkin, loosely folded, on your seat or on the table
to the left of your plate.

4. Some Napkin Folds

5. Pyramid Napkin Fold
This classy napkin folding
technique is simple,
fast, and can be made
easily with most
napkins. If the napkin
being used is thin and
flops easily then iron it
with light starch prior
to folding and it will
turn out perfectly!

6. Bishop’s Hat Napkin Fold
This is a classic dinner
napkin fold, but it can
be difficult to line up
the corners in the cap.
Some starch and an
iron make it easier to be
precise while folding
this one.

7. Twin Candle Napkin Fold
This napkin roll is easy
and elegant. Use it to
spruce up a table with a
flat landscape. This fold
requires no ironing,
starching, or pressing.
Stiff material will help
larger napkins stand up
without sagging.

8. The Standing Fan Napkin Fold
Elegant and decorative,
this is a classic napkin
folding technique.

9. The Rose Napkin Fold
Despite looking fairly
elaborate, this fold is an
easy one, and it can be
done with almost any
variety of napkin.
Display small bowls or
glasses on top of these,
or use them as novelty
cocktail napkins.

10. The Bird Of Paradise Napkin Fold
This is a classic and classy
napkin folding
technique that requires
a stiff napkin. If you
don't have any dinner
napkins made of stiff
linen then a light
starching should fix
you right up.

11. Silverware Napkin Folding
This is a basic silverware
napkin folding meant
for keeping Flatware
like Knives, Fork, Spoon
etc.