Napkin ring

A napkin ring is a ring made ​​of different materials that holds napkins on the dinner table. He is originally an accessory of bourgeois European Tableware.

Cloth napkins that existed before the introduction of paper napkin, to the case of repeated use before they go depending on how dirty the laundry, can be assigned to each family member. For this purpose, the napkins can be personalized with a monogram or the uniform se napkins are each marked in the tray. Distinguishable napkin rings can be a tool for this. The rings keep the napkins also in form, so that the napkins underline the order of the dinner table.

Napkin rings came with the refinement of the bourgeois table manners during the Biedermeier period in the early 19th century in use. You can choose from different materials and can be made different elaborate, from woolen thread to the sterling silver ring, to meet the practical and the representation needs. Truman Capote characterized around 1948 in his novel Thieves summer a young girl as bourgeois as a nap kin ring, translated as bourgeois as a napkin ring.

Napkin rings are also collectibles and object of antiques trade.

• Napkin Rings

Stone rings with paper name badges

Silver rings in two forms

Fabric ribbon with application

Meissen porcelain