Napkin ring
A napkin ring is a ring made of different materials that holds napkins together on the table. It is originally an accessory of the bourgeois European table culture .
Cloth napkins, which existed before the introduction of the paper napkin, should be able to be assigned to the respective family member if they are used several times before they can be washed, depending on how dirty they are. For this purpose, the serviettes can be individualized with a monogram or the serviettes, which are uniform in themselves, are marked when they are put down. Distinguishable napkin rings can be an aid for this. The rings also keep the napkins in shape so that the serviettes emphasize the order of the table.
Napkin rings came into use with the refinement of bourgeois table manners during the Biedermeier period at the beginning of the 19th century. They can be made of different materials and in different ways, from wool threads to sterling silver rings , in order to meet practical and representational needs. In his novel Sommerdiebe around 1948, Truman Capote characterized a young girl as bourgeois as a nap kin ring , translated as bourgeois as a napkin ring .
Napkin rings are also collector's items and items in the antique trade .
- Napkin rings
Paper artwork
Stone rings with paper name tags
Silver rings in two shapes
Fabric ribbon with application
Claude Monet : Lunch 1868
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literature
- Salt shaker and napkin ring. Happy work, part 76 , Wolfenbüttel: Kallmeyer, 1990 DNB
- Arrigo Cipriani : Plates, tables and tables: a brief cultural history of food . From the Ital. trans. Dagmar Türck, Munich: Südwest-Verl. , 1985 ISBN 3-517-00890-7
- Norbert Elias : About the process of civilization
Web links
- Silver Napkin Rings: The napkin ring site (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Truman Capote: Summer Crossing . Penguin, London 2005 ISBN 978-0-141-18858-4 , p. 98; Summer thieves . Novel. From the American by Heidi Zerning. No & But, Zurich 2006, p. 111