| Tissue paper is a lightweight paper that can be made | | | | Hygienic tissue paper is commonly used for paper |
| from both virgin and recycled paper pulp. | | | | handkerchiefs, napkins, bathroom tissue and |
| Tissue paper is used to make a huge range of | | | | household towels. Paper has been used for hygiene |
| products with a wide range of different properties. | | | | purposes for centuries, but tissue papers as we |
| Some of the key properties are strength, | | | | know it today was not produced in USA before the |
| absorbency, basis weight, thickness, brightness, | | | | 1940s with western europe not starting large scale |
| stretch, appearance. Coloured tissue paper is also | | | | industrial production until the early 1960s. |
| available in a wide range of colours including black, | | | | A napkin or serviette is a rectangle of cloth or paper |
| burgundy, cerise, brown, cream, dark blue, dark | | | | used at the table for wiping the mouth while eating. |
| green, forest green, lilac, lime green, orange, pale | | | | It is usually small and folded. The word comes from |
| blue, pale pink, purple, red, sky blue. | | | | Middle English, borrowing the French nappe—a |
| Tissue paper is produced on a paper machine that | | | | cloth covering for a table—and adding -kin, the |
| has a single large steam heated drying cylinder called | | | | diminutive suffix. |
| a yankee dryer that is fitted with a hot air hood. The | | | | The word serviette in lieu of term napkin is not |
| raw material is paper pulp and is sprayed with | | | | typically used in the United States, but in Canada the |
| adhesives inside the yankee cylinder to make the | | | | two terms are interchangeable. |
| paper stick. Creping is done by the yankee's doctor | | | | Conventionally, the napkin is folded and placed to the |
| blade that is scraping the dry paper off the cylinder | | | | left of the place setting, outside the outermost fork. |
| surface. The crinkle is controlled by the strength of | | | | In an ambitious restaurant setting or a caterer's hall, it |
| the adhesive, geometry of the doctor blade, speed | | | | may be folded into more or less elaborate shapes |
| difference between the yankee and final section of | | | | and displayed on the empty plate. A napkin may also |
| the paper machine and paper pulp characteristics. | | | | be held together in a bundle with cutlery by a napkin |
| The properties are controlled by pulp quality and | | | | ring. Alternatively, paper napkins may be contained |
| additives both in base paper and as coating. | | | | with a napkin holder. |