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Slide Napkin Fold

 Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold

Folding cloth napkins is a great way to impress your dinner guests from the off. The slide napkin fold gives the napkin a very strong geometric look.  This fold also can also benefit from starching the napkin before to give it extra shape.

Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold Step one Lay the napkin flat out in front of you.

Step one:

Lay the napkin out in front of you. Unlike the majority of the cloth napkin folds this one starts with tags, labels and seams facing down.

Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold Step Fold the napkin in half towards yourself

Step two:

Fold the napkin in half towards your self.

Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold Step Three Fold the napkin again making it one quarter of its original side

Step three:

Fold the napkin in half again creating a square one quarter of its original size.

Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold Step Four position the napkin in front of you so it looks like a diamond with the open ends facing away form you.

Step four:

Rotate the napkin so it looks like a diamond with the opening corners at the top.

Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold Step Five fold the top of the diamond down to the bottom

Step five:

Take the top of the diamond and fold it back on its self.

Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold Step Six Fold the top layer back on its self

Step six:

Take the top layer and fold this back to towards the original position. Make sure that you leave about an inch over lap on the fold. This is that gives it its strength.

Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold Step Seven Flip the napkin over

Step seven:

Flip the napkin over on to its back

Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold Step Eight fold the napkin in half from left to right

Step eight:

Fold the napkin in half form left to right.  If you’ve not got starch here is a good time to really attack it with a hot iron to make the fold stick.

Folding Cloth Napkins Slide Napkin Fold Step Nine make slight adjustments and stand the napkin up.

Step nine:

Flip it up ninety degrees so it is free standing

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