Hot Trudie Gingham Blue Ruffled Dinner Napkins – Set of 4

Four cloth dinner napkins in Trudie’s Gingham Blue check, finished with a ruffled edge.

Blue gingham napkins are the sensible choice that somehow never looks boring. A check is a pattern that does not fight anything else on the table, so these sit happily alongside florals, solids, stripes, and whatever dishes you already own. That is really the argument for cloth napkins in general. Washable napkins mean you can put out four good ones for a picnic, a birthday, or a Tuesday, and never stop to decide whether the occasion deserves them.

The ruffle is what keeps gingham cloth napkins from feeling like a diner tablecloth.

How do you fold cloth napkins? The basic cloth napkin fold is a quarter fold: fold the square in half, then in half again, and lay it flat under the fork or centered on the plate. Decorative variations such as the fan, the pocket fold, and the rectangle-through-a-ring all start from that same quarter fold and hold their shape best when the napkin is pressed with a warm iron first.