A set of four cloth dinner napkins in Trudie's Constance Chocolate print, each finished with a ruffled trim along the edge.
The ruffle is the whole argument for these. It gives a flat, folded napkin some actual shape, so a place setting looks considered even when dinner is a Tuesday. Chocolate brown napkins are also the quiet workhorse of a linen drawer. Brown sits easily beside white dishes, wood, brass, and most of the seasonal color you will put on a table, which a bolder shade cannot promise.
And because these are brown cloth napkins and not paper, they come back out for the next dinner, and the one after that.
How do you use napkin rings with cloth napkins? A cloth napkin is folded into a flat rectangle or rolled loosely lengthwise before it is slid through the ring and set on the plate or to the left of the fork. Dinner-size cloth napkins are large enough to gather softly inside a standard ring without bunching, which is why most napkin ring sets are sized around them.
