Serviettenapkin Folding Fleur De Lis In A Glass Version1 Recipes

Steps:

• Lay your serviette out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Bring the corner at the South point up to meet the North point. you should have before you a triangle shape with the crease at the bottom.
• Fold the East point of the triangle up to meet the North point, repeat with the West point. You will now have a diamond shape with a vertical gap running down the centre.
• Take the South corner and bring it towards the North point but stop 3/4 of the way up, crease it well at the bottom now then take the same point and bring it back over itself to the bottom center of the triangle.
• Carefully turn the serviette over and tuck the East/West points into each other.
• Turn serviette over to the front side and gently fold down the two side flaps, creating a Fleur de Lis type of serviette that has a the addition of a decorative cuff at the base.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Fold the South point of the diamond up to meet the North point of the diamond.
• Fold the East point up to meet the North point of the diamond and repeat with the West point.You will now have a smaller diamond shape with a vertical gap running down the center.
• Carefully turn the serviette over.The point that has the open edges should be in the South of the diamond position.
• Fold these South points up to meet the North point, you will now have a triangle shape with a horizontal gap in the center.
• Turn the napkin over again and bring the East and West points into the center, tucking them inside each other.
• Turn the serviette over again and gently fold down the two outside flaps to make the petals of the Fleur-de-lis.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Take the point at North and fold it down to meet the point at South. You will now have a triangle in front of you where the crease is at the top and the point is facing the South position.
• Take this South point and fold it to the North, going past the middle centre of the top line so that you now have a strip at the bottom if the serviette and a triangle sticking out at the top of the strip.
• Turn the serviette carefully around so that it is now vertical and starting at the bottom end of the long strip, accordion pleat all the way to the other end of the strip at the top. Hold firmly so that it keeps its shape.
• Carefully set the base of the serviette into a wine or water glass (the base is the thicker bit at the bottom) and when you let go you will have a tall pleated triangle at the top and two pleated triangles hanging down at the sides.
• Arrange the pleats to that they are even and neat.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Take the South point at the bottom and fold it up to meet the North point at the top. You will now have a triangle with the crease at the bottom.
• Take the East point and bring it over to meet the North point, repeat with the West point. You will now have a small diamond shape with a vertical gap running down the centre.
• Take the South point and bring it towards the North point, but stop 3/4 of the way up.
• Now still holding the south point, bring it back down so that it rests at the centre of the base of the triangle. This is your decorative cuff at the base of the serviette.
• Take right hand loose point in the North position and fold it down so that the point is tucked neatly behind the decorative cuff, repeat with the remaining loose North point.
• Turn the serviette over and gently slip the East and West points one into the other.
• Turn the serviette back to the front side and you will have a standing serviette with two decrative cuffs and a triangle point above. These can be left as is if you wish, or you can take the topmost of the two North points and bring it down and tuck it behind the cuff in the middle.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Take the point at South and fold it up to meet the point at North. You will now have a triangle in front of you where the crease is at the bottom and the point is facing the North position.
• Place your finger in the centre of the outside line of the triangle that runs from North to East. Then take the East point of the triangle and bring it up and past your finger so that you have made an additional triangle that has a point sticking up at the top. Repeat with the West point of the triangle. You will now have before you a very rough diamond shape that has three triangle points at the top.
• Take the bottom point at South and fold it half way up to the centre of the serviette. It will form a triangle below the three triangles points at the top.
• Carefully turn the serviette so that it is vertical (the 3 top points will now be facing East or West, whichever you prefer) and accordion fold from the bottom to the top of the serviette.
• Carefully set the base of the serviette into a wine or water glass (the base is the thicker bit at the bottom) and when you let go you will have a pleated triangle at the top and two pleated triangles hanging down at the sides.
• Arrange the pleats to that they are even and neat.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you.
• Begin folding accordion/pleating style from the bottom, all the way up to the top. Make each fold/ pleat about 3/4" - 1" (2 cm - 2.5cm) wide.
• Fold the pleated napkin in half.
• Place the serviette into the wine glass, folding the first inch at the base underneath to keep pleats in place.
• Unfold the pleats and shape into a fan. Interlock the two center pleats if needed to keep the fan intact.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you. Fold it in half horizontally.
• Take the serviette and fold it in half again vertically so that it is now a small square a quarter the size of the original square.
• Only one corner of the square will have 4 open / loose edges, rotate your square so that it is a flat diamond shape with the open corner pointing upwards. We will call this the North corner.
• Take the East corner and make an accordion fold all the way to the West corner.
• Holding it firmly, gently pull out each of the 4 loose edges at the North point, fanning them out from left to right.
• Roll up the south corner a little to help the fan to keep its shape and place in a water or wine glass.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Fold the South point of the diamond up to meet the North point of the diamond.
• Fold the East point up to meet the North point of the diamond and repeat with the West point.You will now have a smaller diamond shape with a vertical gap running down the center.
• Carefully turn the serviette over.The point that has the open edges should be in the South of the diamond position.
• Fold these South points up to meet the North point, you will now have a triangle shape with a horizontal gap in the center.
• Turn the napkin over again and bring the East and West points into the center, tucking them inside each other.
• Turn the serviette over again and gently ease into a neat cylinder shape with all three points pointing symetically upwards.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you. Fold it in half horizontally.
• Take the serviette and fold it in half again vertically so that it is now a small square a quarter the size of the original square.
• Only one corner of the square will have 4 open / loose edges, rotate your square so that it is a flat diamond shape with the loose edges pointing upwards. We will call this the North corner.
• Take the topmost of these points and make a relatively tight roll towards the South position, at about the half way point you won't be able to roll any further and you will have a diagonal neat cuff going east/west across the diamond shape.
• Now take the next loose corner at North and gently bring it South, tucking it underneath the cuff that you just made in the previous step but leaving a pleat showing above, the same width of the cuff below. You will now have two diagonal neat cuffs/pleats going east/west across the diamond shape.
• Then take the next loose point at North and bring it to the South position, and still holding the point, start rolling it under itself heading towards the North position, at about the half way point you won't be able to roll any further and you will have a third horizontal neat cuff going east/west across the diamond shape that's next to the second one.
• Rotate your diamond shape so that the North point is now the top right corner and you have a square shape in front of you with three diagonal pleats running from the top left corner to the bottom right corner.
• Gently turn the serviette over and bring the top right and bottom right corners into the center. Repeat with the top left and bottom left corners.
• Turn back to the front side and you will have a very neat rectangle that has three diagonal pleats running across it.
• An elegant and stylish serviette that will impress any guest.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Bring the corner at the North point down to meet the South point. you should have before you a triangle shape with the crease at the top.
• Fold the East point of the triangle down to meet the South point, repeat with the West point. You will now have a diamond shape with a vertical gap running down the centre.
• There will be two loose points at the South position, take the right South point and bring it up to the point at North. Repeat with the left point at South. You will now have a diamond shape that consists of two smaller triangles at the top and one larger one at the bottom.
• Take the loose right point at North and turn it back on itself 45 degrees so that it looks like a little wing(these will be your Fleur de Lis flaps later) Repeat with the loose left point at North.
• Bring both the remaining points at south up the centre of the serviette, somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 so that there is a 1 inch (2.5 cm) gap between the bottom fold that you are making and the thicker base of the rest of the serviette. The actual distance will depend on how big your serviettes are. Crease the lowest crease well.
• Now fold this bottom crease up and over the bottom edge of the thicker base of the serviette to form a cuff.
• Carefully turn the serviette over and tuck the East/West points of the triangle into each other.
• Turn back to to the front side and halding the join firmly, gently ease it so that it stands up, bring the two little "wings" down so that they are like Fleur de Lis.
• You will end up with a standing serviette that has a cuff at the base, a decorative centre and Fleur de Lis flaps at the sides.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you.
• Take the bottom right and left corners and make an accordion fold strips all the way up to the top right and left corners. If you press these with an iron the pleats will be nice and sharp. Leave unironed for a wavy casual look. (but ironed looks neater) You will now have a thin band the width of your accordion fold.
• Fold the serviette in half so that is is now half it's length and slip a serviette ring over the fold end of the accordion strip and pull gently about 1 inch ( 2.5 cm) up.
• Fan out the accordion pleats at the top to make a pleasing balance to the serviette. Present on a plate.