Source for Thick, Soft Cotton Dinner Napkins

Prisspot!

[quote]And they were cheap. As I recall, they were around $5 each and lasted forever.

Ugh. Why don't you just use your old pillowcases as bibs.

M A R Y! MARY MARY MARY !

I use baby diapers as napkins. Laundered of course.

[quote]I accept a certain amount of wrinkling for my personal use and iron napkins for guests.

I accept a certain amount of wrinkling in my eldergays. Not too much. Just a little around the balls....

I always keep a small basket of pine cones by my dinner table. I'm the rugged type.

[quote]Also, I send my laundry to a wash-and-fold service, so there's no way to do special instructions, like taking them out of the dryer when still damp.

Oh Mary. I love you and want to have your baby.

This really is the Mary-est thread in a while.

[quote]I accept a certain amount of wrinkling for my personal use and iron napkins for guests.

Good Lord you sound tedious.

[quote]This really is the Mary-est thread in a while.

Oh yeah. It's close to perfect.

Thick, soft cotton napkins? I just strap Maxipads under everyone's chins and call it done.

John Lennon preferred a Kotex taped to his forehead...

I just typed “Thick, Soft Cotton Dinner Napkins” into Amazon and got at least one-hundred options. Maybe you could look into it, OP.

Urban Villa makes good quality cotton napkins and they are very reasonably priced.

You want to BUY cotton napkins? And you don't like white because it stains?

You're not a prisspot. You're a lazy dolt and you're cheap and crass.

White napkins are the standard. If you desire colored napkins, at least have a reason other than your meanness. Something like "these look lovely with the orchids in the centerpiece."

Any decent seamstress or sewing help can make your napkins of the quality fabric of your choice. We have never purchased something so basic as cloth napkins. How dependent on commercial trade.

If your serviettes stain, repurpose them and replace them.

Our laundress never has a problem keeping our linens and other household textiles tidy. If you don't have a laundress and must use a service instead because you're pretentious about doing your own washing while playing make-believe about high standards, don't complain that you have hired one that does not take instructions. Contract with a decent laundry service. If they can get spinach-and-prune-whip shit out of diapers they can clean your bottled orange "French" dressing and purple lipstick from a napkin. You're both cheap and incompetent.

And if your laundry-service returns are wrinkled, send them back. If they are creased, behave, because creased linens are the mark of a house that is too concerned about more important matters to bother about folds. But wrinkles are unforgivable.

Not cotton, but roughlinen.com makes quality linen items, including napkins. I have their tea towels in the orkney fabric, napkins are available in this fabric as well. It is heavy duty, while feeling light, absorbent, and doesn't wrinkle too much in the wash.

Try Dollar General.

OP, you already have the exact type of napkins that you want.

I have had very good luck removing very old stains by soaking linens using Oxyclean powder and water. (follow the directions). If the first soaking does not completely remove all the stains, repeat the process.

I used it on table linens I inherited that had faint stains from wine, gravy, cranberry sauce, etc. The linens were not stark white but a light off white color and damask fabric. (Consequently, in the past Clorox bleach could not be used to get out the stains.)

After the Oxyclean soakings the stains are now completely gone. These linens had been washed and ironed many times over the years and now the faint stains have disappeared.

I found the recommendation on website run by people who collect vintage linens.

If you like, you can rinse the napkins after the soaking and send them to your usual laundry.

Much cheaper and less of of hassle than getting new napkins. Why buy inferior new when the originals just need a bit of stain removing.

Oh FFS you old queens need a real problem

OP is as old as the hills, she doesn't do online shopping

The OP has our sympathies...

I suggest a quality thrift shop that sells vintage table linens.

Also an antiques flea market. There are specialist sellers of this stuff. Tables piled high with vintage napkins, often never used. In all sizes and formalities. Young people don't want this stuff so when some rich old matriarch dies, it all ends up in a flea market.

Come off it, the OP would shit her panties if she had to buy second hand linen

Off topic, but I’m shocked at the table manners of Millennials. We sometimes host artists in our guest house for a week each year (for a local art show), and have them over for dinners during their stay.

NOT ONE of them has ever used the cloth napkin provided next to their place setting, instead using their sleeves to wipe their mouths. It’s like they don’t even know what it’s for.

Animals!

Le Jacquard Francais has beautiful table linens in both cotton and linen. Alexandre Turpault is another good source.

I’ve bought my napkins at Williams Sonoma for the past two decades. They last for quite awhile, and stay fairly white. The latest batch is not particularly good at retaining shape.

[quote]Why buy inferior new when the originals just need a bit of stain removing.

I agree. That's what makes Eldergays so very precious...

OP, if you can put all of that time and energy into worry about your napkins, I can't imagine what you must be like when something important has to be done.

R25, they were all dumped in infancy into day care so that their mothers could work outside the home to pay the interest on maxed out credit card purchases of a bunch of junk. All they learned in day care was how to be pack animals.

R18, thanks for the cleaning recommendation. I'll give it a try. And thank you to those who responded with sources.

For the rest of you - yes, Mary, I AM a prisspot. Why else would I be here, the world capital of prisspots?

Oxyclean is the best stain removal product I have even found. I use it regularly and always with surprisingly good results.

They also have an OxyClean for whites (fabric, not people) that works even better than the original version.

OP Go to Amazon, type in: Cotton Craft Napkins.

These are the best, and hit all of your markers. Very inexpensive too. They have a few different designs and a few solids, I can't speak to any of the ones that are linen or a blend, only the cotton.

I really like this particular design. Festive and informal. I wish we could get Amazon previews back.

OP, R31

You're welcome.

Let us know the results.

I love op!

^^You'll have to fight me for him.

OP is a classic Datalounger and we treasure him.

Bon chance, OP!

OP, tell us please the source you use when updating your doilies.

Hyacinth, would it not be more economical to have Sheridan run some up on his sewing machine?

Garnier-Thiebaut. Made in France linens; napkins, tablecloths and lovely, lovely highly durable tea towels. Available on Amazon.

Remind me to kill myself if I turn into a Martha Stewart house frau queen in my old age.

R42 I'm on it!

You’ll be dead long before you ever get there R42.

Someone I follow on IG is a Martha Stewart queen such as r42 fears he may become. He has friends who are equally devoted to Martha, and they travel all over the south and midwest buying various items that were once for sale at Martha by Mail, marthastewart.com, etc. They get together at their various residences to share tea towel tips and make Martha's recipes.

It's fun to watch them go on their escapades and trips, at least in part because I'm able to stand back from it and say, with a breath of relief, "Hey, that didn't happen to me."

Say, R45, ask your friend if it is still possible to get some of those MS nice glasses they used to sell at (Horrors!) K-mart.

Nice design. Good size. I still have a lot of mine, but are some of them still around?

Have you looked on eBay, r46? I just searched for "martha stewart glass" under "glassware & drinkware" and found these. Adding "kmart" made everything disappear.