[Illustration: Fig. 1.]
[Illustration: Fig. 2.]
[Illustration: Fig. 3.]
Take a very stiff square of damask, and fold it exactly in half. Open
and fold in half the reverse way. The centre is now ascertained. Fold
all the corners very exactly to the centre. Iron them down; turn over,
and again turn the corners to the centre. Turn the serviette over again
and take each corner from the centre, and fold it back at the half.
Then crease it from A to B (fig. 1), open the crease, and fold it again
from C to D. Take it in the hand and bring the crease A to C, and C to
B, and so all round. This will enable you to make it stand. Hold the
apex between the fingers of one hand and square out the four sides.
This makes it resemble fig. 2, and completes it. A few flowers should
be arranged in the compartments. For variety the corners may be left
upright, like fig. 3. By reversing it, as shown in fig. 4, a different
design is obtained.
[Illustration: Fig. 4.]