Variety of napkins for appliances

Napkins are one of the most important parts of our culture. People are accustomed to actively using them in ancient times. Every cultured person who respects himself and the people around him must definitely know how to use napkins even at home, and not just at a party or in a restaurant.

Consider how to properly use napkins under the appliances for a family breakfast, lunch or dinner, what products are best to offer guests, how to use these accessories at an outing celebration. Of great importance will be the material from which these products are made, their sizes, density, shape, colors.

These accessories help solve 2 pressing problems at once:

• to make the setting of a festive or everyday table more beautiful and original;
• protect the table from possible damage - scratches and stains.

Table pads can be made from various materials: glass and paper, bamboo and plastic, metal and beads, different types of fabrics, leather and felt.

• Cloth napkins were traditionally folded in the form of figurines that adorn the table. The most common decorative napkins are cotton - they look like small towels.

• Paper napkins usually have a huge assortment of all kinds of colors, parameters and shapes, low price, they do not need washing, they look aesthetically attractive and therefore paper napkins are the most common.

• Cardboard models - these are almost no napkins. It is more of an appliance stand to protect the table surface.Due to the wide variety of colors, they will help to make the table setting more unusual.

• Thin plastic sheets with drawings (print, photo) easy to wash, they are highly wear-resistant, do not absorb moisture and oil, will not smell, you can safely put hot dishes on them.

• Bamboo napkins are individual thin sticks woven together with a special thread. In use, such wicker coasters are very convenient: they are conveniently stored rolled up, they perfectly protect the countertop from hot dishes. However, washing them is quite difficult - many stains can remain permanently. Moreover, this material will absorb odors.

• You can create a stylish napkin stand out of corks yourself, but you can purchase a cork stand on order or at your nearest hardware store. Such a product will look very original, it will help protect your countertop from high temperatures, since it is this stand that will experience all the critical characteristics.

On the market, you can find serving napkins for cutlery on the table of various shapes: they can be square, rectangular, round, triangular, fancy. Products will vary in size. Purchase of such accessories should be based on where and under what circumstances they will be used.

The rectangular shape is usually 30 × 56 cm. Square-shaped serving napkins are often placed under the cutlery. For breakfast or tea drinking, accessories with dimensions of 35 × 35 cm are suitable.For a regular lunch, products of 40 × 40 cm are appropriate, and for receiving guests, purchase large napkins with parameters 50 × 50 cm.

In order to creatively decorate the table for the holiday, in addition to the type, size and material, it is important to choose the correct color for the napkins. It can directly depend on the reason for the feast, on the time of day and even on the season. For setting a festive table in spring, you can buy napkins in yellow or green, blue or lilac, delicate shades of pastel and silver. For lunch in the summer, you can choose orange, delicate greens, rich golds or rich reds. Classic autumn colors - beige, deep brown, catchy blue, golden. For the New Year's feast, silver models with creative contrasting colors are most often chosen.

If the celebration takes place at the beginning of the day, the colors of the napkins should be light. Dark is better to choose for dinner or a feast in the evening. For setting the wedding table, you can choose noble tones - ivory, luxurious emerald, creative blue. Serving napkins for cutlery with plant motifs will look elegant and stylish. White or gray fabrics are considered universal accessories. They will be successfully combined with a tablecloth, complement white dishes.

If you are a lover of minimalism, then you should turn to the Scandinavian style, where it is allowed to use black and muted gray tones to decorate the table. Black napkins with bright silver stripes around the entire perimeter of the product will just look great.

When making the final choice of napkins, it is worth considering that it is best to drape beautifully mixed fabrics. For example - cotton combined with viscose, polyester, polyamide. Completely natural fabrics are seriously deformed during washing. In addition, ironing them to perfection is almost impossible. Choose for use products that are easy to care for, as well as those that will not lose their elegant and bright look for a long time.

The dimensions of the product should be selected so that the napkin protrudes slightly from the edges of the dishes, ideally – 2-3 cm. It is best that the color coats under the plates match well with the service. A sharp contrast in colors can also be allowed - sometimes black coasters are ideal for white dishes.