Serviettes and how to fold them
A folding guide published in Belfast in 1890 by the linen firm Robinson & Cleaver, presenting napkin-folding instructions as a trade advertisement for household table linen. Its pictures show folded serviettes arranged on tables beside glassware, flowers, and cutlery, with diagrams and numbered fold steps printed alongside; a designer could take from them the crisp pleats, fan shapes, and warm chromolithographic palette of Victorian table settings.
