Making origami napkin cat ears, otherwise known as the bishop's hat, takes some practice, but in a few steps and with some experience, you can decorate your dinner plates with this elegant napkin fold. Apply some starch and run an iron over the napkin before you fold to make the folding easier, as well as help keep the napkin in place after you have folded in the cat ears.

Lay the napkin flat. Fold the napkin in half with the open end towards you.

Fold the far right corner from the top to the middle of the napkin facing you.

Fold the bottom left corner nearest you up so that the edge are next to the part of the napkin you just folded.

  • Making origami napkin cat ears, otherwise known as the bishop's hat, takes some practice, but in a few steps and with some experience, you can decorate your dinner plates with this elegant napkin fold.
  • Fold the bottom left corner nearest you up so that the edge are next to the part of the napkin you just folded.

Flip the napkin over 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Fold the bottom half of the napkin up and away from you. The farthest edges will be laying on top of each other. You will see a small triangle on the left running into the fold.

  • Fold the bottom half of the napkin up and away from you.
  • You will see a small triangle on the left running into the fold.

Reach under the napkin on the fold on the right, pulling out the point nearest you. You will now have two points down towards you.

Gently fold the left triangle in half and tuck the end under the right triangle.

Flip the napkin over so that the points are facing away from you.

Fold the right triangle to the left and tuck its end into the left triangle.

Turn the napkin up and push down in the middle, opening it into a circle.