the General rules of laying. Kinds of folding of napkins

you are: the General rules of laying

At laying of tables and service of breakfasts, dinners, suppers, and also receptions, banquets, wedding and other celebratory evenings use linen napkins which decorate a table and give a restaurant hall a solemn kind.

There is a set of forms and receptions of folding of napkins, but as the general rule the principle here serves - the less hands of the waiter touch a napkin at its folding, the gigienichnee this operation proceeds, thus the visitor should develop easily a napkin to wipe lips or to put it on knees.

If at laying on a table do not put a snackbar a plate (usually for a breakfast) on its place between a knife and a plug put the linen napkin combined four times.

For a dinner, and also a celebratory supper, a napkin banquet often put in shape ' konusnyh caps ', ' a rocket ', ' a crown ', ' a hat ', etc.

More difficult forms of folding of napkins apply at laying of banquet tables; it - ' a tulip ', ' a fan ', ' a candle ', ' a pocket ', etc.

To combine a napkin ' a rocket ', in the beginning it should be folded double and to put on a table free edges downwards. Then take the top corners and, having connected them below at an edge, put a napkin a triangle. Turned out triangle put half-and-half and put on a plate corners to the visitor.

Reception of folding of a napkin ' a pocket ' consists that at the napkin combined four times free corners podvorachivajut inside: the first (top) - approximately on half, the second - on l/З, the third and the fourth together - approximately on 1/4. Other corners also podvorachivajut, the parties slightly smooth also a napkin put on a table. It is possible to put cards, flowers in the formed pockets etc.

The Combined linen napkins display on a snackbar or a dessert plate. If laying spend in the presence of visitors and plugs put knifes on a plate in a napkin which is combined four times, thus its one corner will bend before its connection with the napkin centre.

In the formed pocket stack knifes an edge in a pocket, and from above stack plugs small horns upwards.