A person's two hands on top of pile of cloth napkins on a table - Maskot/Getty Images Cloth napkins are an elegant upgrade from paper napkins. They come in a variety of fabrics, are a more ...

You might not call my apple cloth napkins elegant, but they certainly were easy, and you can create any ambience you like by selecting fabrics that portray the look or feeling you are going for. When ...

The subtitle of the new “Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts” is “Basic techniques for sewing, applique, embroidery, quilting, dyeing and printing.” And pressing. Don’t forget ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If I have pounded one message into my kids’ heads it’s this: Your job is to figure out your gifts and use them to make the world a better place. I try to ...

One of the easiest ways to "go green" (so to speak) is to get rid of the paper napkins and start using all those fancy cloth ones that you got as gifts for your wedding shower. These days, ...

Visually pleasing as cloth napkins may be, their primary purpose cannot be forgotten. Linen’s naturally unrivalled absorbency (exemplified by its use for bath towels and tea towels) makes it the ideal ...