Four cloth napkins in Trudie's Beatrice Chocolate print, each one edged with a ruffle.
Brown napkins get overlooked in favor of white, which is a mistake if you actually eat at your table. Chocolate is forgiving in a way ivory never is, and it hides the ordinary evidence of dinner between washes. The ruffled edge keeps them from reading severe, so the same four napkins work for a weeknight bowl of pasta and for the table you set once a year and photograph.
Being cloth, they are reusable, so the cost of them keeps going down every time you fold them back into the drawer.
How do you wash cloth napkins? Cloth napkins are generally machine washed in cold water with like colors and tumble dried on low, and skipping bleach and fabric softener helps printed colors stay saturated while keeping the weave absorbent. Stains lift most easily when treated before the napkin goes through a dryer cycle, because dryer heat sets them permanently.
