Evening star., 1935-06-02

course, let me suggest that you get bread and
butter plates of silver. if you can (plated
ones if OF good design, can be as good looking
as sterling) or else get them to match your
glass.
On the other hand if you are choosing a
whole set of matching china, then there are
no mixing questions of any sort. You could,
for example, set the places at table either with
your dinner plates. or with those of the next
size smaller - depending upon the scale of
your table setting as whole.
On the subject of napkin marking and fold
ing - since l can not very well pin paper
patterns to this column the best oral direc-
tions that / can give are these: First, in
order that the marking shall be conferred upon
each napkin when it has been folded, it is
obviously necessary. before having your nap
kins marked. to fold one sample napkin of
each variety and size the way you like it and
then make penciled X to indicate the center
Of the design to be embroidered.
Large dinner napkins from 80 inches to
Sc inches wide by q inches high are usually
marked in the center To fold: turn the nap
kin on the wrong side and fold over the top
and bottom about 8 inches, making hori-
zOntal strip about 10 inches high Then fold
over the sides. making three equal thirds.
Now turn the napkin right side up and you
have rectangle slightly wider than it is high.
with the embroidered monogram in the center
on top. Before putting the napkin on the
table, each side is turned under but not
creased flat. making soft roll between 10 and
| inches high by about inches wide, laid
iTrpendicularly on the plate.
All napkins marked in the center are folded
this same way but the amount of edge folded
back is of course less 24-inCh napkin would
be folded about = 4 inches all around, leaving
a 9-inch center That is again folded into a
roll 9 inches high by 312 to inches wide.
If 30-inch napkin is marked in the corner,
fold it into l6 squares and see that the corner
with the monogram is on top. Lay it cross
cornered on the service plate and turn the
corner loosely under with the marking on the
roll of the turn.
Or, if you are of French descent and like
to put piece of bread in your napkin then
put it under the corner and let the corner fall
over it.
A 24inCh napkin. marked in the corner. is
folded into nine squares and then folded in
half perpendicularly but if the marking does
not come out in the center of the top you
must find out how to fold it so that it will!
Napkins that are 20 inches or smaller are
usually marked across the corner and folded
in four, then turned with the embroidered
corner toward the lower edge of the plate
and the top corner turned under to within an
inch of a complete triangle "a smaller nap
kin is turned back somewhat leSS.) And then
the side corners are turned back, making
perpendicular roll with thick, diagonally
folded top edge and thin pointed lower cor
ner. Or these 20-inch and small napkins are
folded into plain four squares and then folded
perpendicularly in half again, like tall
narrow book.
Apart from choosing design that balances
there is really no advice as to rking, further
than to keep the size of the monogram or
particularly the initials - in proportion to
the size and material of the article to be
marked Formal damask dinner napkins can
on occasion have monogram inches square,
whereas initials on very small sheer lunch or
tea napkins should not be more than about
half an inch high. This is, however, not a
question of rule but of what you think 'looks
right" A book of designs is shown at every
linen counter both for handwork and for the
new machine work that is exactly like the
most beautiful French embroidery, and at
much smaller cost.