While touring the unbelievably extensive dishes collection of the Habsburgs, I found these imperial napkins. There is also an imperial napkin fold design, not pictured here, that is still used today. How to fold the napkin in the imperial style is a state secret. Only two people, in the entire world, know how to do it. That is a lot of napkins to fold for two people when State Banquets role around. The dishes collection was its own museum--there were hundreds of thousands of pieces. It was a maze of cutlery and opulence. And it went on and on. For an hour and a half. I'd never though of table settings as an indication of wealth until now.
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