Serviettenapkin Tulip Fold Recipes

Steps:

• Lay your serviette out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Take your finger and place it half way between the West and South points, and about 1 inch toward the centre of the serviette. Next, Take the East point at bring it to the point where your finger is. Don't crease this fold (yet).
• Now take the West point of the serviette and bring it over to the East side so that both sides of this new diamons shape are even. Youmay have to adjust the first fold a little to get it looking good, once they are both ok, you can crease both the folds.
• You will have a very fat tie shape.
• Repeat the previous step again completely and you will have a smaller tie shape in front of you now.
• Take the top third of the tie (the narrowest bit) and fold it under and over itself horizontally (the end tip should be tucked undernieth) and the top should now look like the knot of a formal neck tie.
• Place on a plate and surprise the men in your life!

Steps:

• Lay your serviette out flat before you in a square.
• Take the top left and top right corner and bring them 1/3rd of the way down the square.
• Now take the bottom left and bottom right corners and bring them up to meet the new corners at the top. You will have before you a long rectangle that is 1/3rd the width of your original servietter square.
• Take the top let and bottom let corners and fold them 2/3rd of the way towards the right.
• Place your finger about half way down the line that now runs vertically down the serviette at the 2/rd mark, and with your other hand, bring the bottom right corner of the flap folded in the previous step, up to meet your finger in the center. This should produce a horizontal band in the center if the left 2/3rd of the serviette, and the bottom left corner should turn into a triangle.
• Now repeat by bringing the top right corner of the flap at 2/3rds down to meet the bottom crease fold of the band you just made. Once it's flattened out it there will second band directly above the first and another triangle will appear in the top left corner of the serviette.
• Take the free end of the band in the center of the serviette and fold it back over to the left so that it sticks out to the left, past the left edge of the serviette.
• Now take the top right and bottom right of the serviette and bring it over to the left so that what *were* the right edges of the serviette not are level with the outer edge of the band that's sticking out on the left. You will have before you a square shape.
• Place your finger in the center of the left edge and with your other hand, bring the bottom left corner up to meet your finger. This should make a flat horizontal band in the middle again and a triangle will form in the bottom right corner.
• Finish this band by bringing the top left corner of the serviette down to meet the bottom crease mark of the band you have just made, and as before a second band will form directly above the first and the last triangle should form in the top right corner.
• As with the previous side, take the long loose end of the band on the left and fold it back on itself so that it sticks out on the right side. Your serviette will now look something like a rowboat with very fat oars in the middle that stick out on each side.
• Place your fingers inside the triangles in the center of the serviette and holding the left and right ends very firmly, turn the serviette inside out. It will look a tad messy at first but the square box form should be there, and I neatened mine up considerably by easing everything into place.
• To make this serviette really impressive, carefully hold the little serviette basket open on each side in turn, while ironing the inside of the four sides.
• Fill your basket with a bread roll, a cookie, a few crackers, a small gift, party favours and confetti -- in fact, whatever takes your fancy.

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 out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Fold the South point of the diamond up to meet the North point of the diamond.
• Turn the serviette so that the crease is vertical on the left side and the point points out to the right.
• Bring the top point of the napkin diagonally towards you and to the right so that the crease falls an inch (2.5cm) or so short of the right-most corner and the newly formed point at the bottom is a few inches (5-6 cm) to the right of the left one.
• Fold the right-most point towards you, the top point remains in the same place as before and the bottom comes about half way along the remaining edge. This creates two neat triangles and a diamond shape and a very simple but elegant serviette.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you in a square shape.
• Take the bottom two corners and fold them 1/3 of the way up the serviette.The fold line should be at the bottom.
• Take the top two corners and fold them 1/3 down so that the top two corners are level with the fold line that you made in the previous step.You now have a rectangle in front of you.
• Place your finger in the centre top point of the rectangle and with the other hand take the top right hand corner of the rectangle and fold it to the center bottom of the rectangle, but continue past the bottom of the rectangle so that you have a vertical straight line running down the center and a small flap sticking out that the bottom. Repeat with the left side of the serviette.
• Then fold the bottom two flaps back on top of themselves so that they are level with the bottom of the rest of the serviette. You will have before you a thin rectangle shape on the bottom and a triangle on top of it and there will be a vertical gap in the center of both of them.
• Take the right hand end of the rectangle and fold it into the center, repeat with the left hand side of the rectangle but insert it into the opposite piece.
• This should form a small square pocket that has a triangular top.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Fold the North point of the diamond down to meet the South point of the diamond. You will now have a triangle shape that's pointing downwards.
• Take hold of the South points and start rolling them up towards the North point, stopping fractionally short of the crease at the top.
• Loop the right hand end over the left hand end, pull the right hand end though the resulting hole to form a loose knot.
• Don't pull the knot too tight, just enough to be pleasing and informal.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you in a square shape.
• Take the top right corner and fold the point into the center point of the square. Repeat with the other 3 corners. You should have a diamond shape in front of you.
• Take the diamond and position it so that it is now a square in front of you. Then take the right top and bottom side corners and fold them vertically in towards the center of the serviette so that you have a shape before you that has a wide rectangle on the left side and a thinner rectangle on the right.
• Now bring the top and bottom left corners in to the middle center so that you have two even vertical rectangles before you.
• Carefully turn the serviette over.
• Fold the top inch (2.5cm) (or slightly less, if you are not using a big serviette) towards you and iron it firmly. This will be your shirt collar. Then gently turn the napkin over again.
• Bring the top right corner in to the top center of the serviette, but place it about 1/2 inch (15mm) down the centre line like the centre of a collar.
• Now take the right bottom flap and fold them up and out diagonally, the upside down "V" in the centre will semi mirror the angle in the coller folds above it. Repeat with the left bottom flap. You should have before you the piece with the collar at the top and some angled triangles at the bottom that will shortly be the sleeves of the shirt.
• Take the bottom left and right corners (these are also the bottom points of the triangles that stick out) and fold them upwards until the middle of the line between them is level with the center of the collar at the top. You will now have a square shape in the middle with the collar above it and two "sleeves"at either side. Fold the centre top of the square under the flaps of the collar so that it looks like a real shirt.
• Decorate with flowers or sweets etc for buttons if desired.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you.
• Take the bottom left and bottom right corners and fold them up 1/3rd of the way towards the top of the serviette.
• Then fold the top left and top right corners down 1/3rd of the way. You will now have a long thin rectangle that is 1/3rd the width of the serviette sequare.
• Take the right short end of the rectangle and fold it over to the center point of the serviette. Then repeat with the left short side. You will now have a little square with a vertical gap running down the middle.
• Then take the bottom right corner of the square and fold it 3/4 of the way up the center line so that a triangle forms at the bottom. Repreat with the bottom left corner. You should now have a square top and a triangular bottom (pointing downwards) to your shape.
• Carefully turn the serviette over (keeping the bottom of the triangle pointing down).
• Take the top right corner of the serviette and fold it just past the middle top centre line. Bring the left top corner over and tuck it into the right corner that you have just folded.
• Carefully turn the serviette over and you will see the tulip front, there will be a central petal and an outer petal on each side.
• Carefully fan out the outer petals and stand it on a plate.

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.
• Place one hand on the North point and the other at the center of the base of the triangle, lift the serviette up so that you create a ridged pleat that stands up between your fingers. Lay the serviette down flat so that you have a triangle with a raised ridge running vertically down the centre.
• Take the East point and bring it up to a point half way towards the North point, this will create a pleat in the right hand side, repeat with the West point.
• Slip the serviette ring onto the base of the serviette where the folds meet and pull about 1/3 of the way up.
• Fan out your tulip so that the central pleat and the sides are symetrical.