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The Prince of Wales’s Feather is a perfectly new design, invented especially for the present work. It is simple in effect and very handsome in appearance. It requires a very stiff crisp serviette. Lay the damask on the table, ironing it damp. Fold it from [fig. 2 in the Crown], from A to B, using the hot iron to crease it. Without disturbing this fold, crease in half again the reverse way, from C to D, thus reducing the size to a quarter. Smooth it with the iron. Next fold this in half diagonally, like [fig. 4 in the Crown]. Observe [fig. 4], in the illustrations on the present page, carefully. Fold it in half from A to B, using the iron; this will produce [fig. 2]. Make the fold C to B, on one side only, in the manner shown in [fig. 3]. Then fold it back again at the dotted line D, and it will resemble [fig. 4]. Fold the other side to match, always using the iron to press every fold. Open it and it will resemble [fig. 5], with the folds A, C, D. Make the folds, E, as shown in [fig. 5], taking care not to flatten the other folds, leaving the serviette only just open enough to make the folds, E, each side. It now resembles [fig. 6]. Bring the last two folds quite flat and inside C and D, and it will resemble [fig. 7]. Treat the other side the same, and then fold it in half in the middle, A, and it will resemble [fig. 8]. Now allow it to open a little and hold it by the apex, B, [fig. 9]. Keep it very much indented in the centre (A to B); bring the wings or side feathers forward, and curl over the three lips of the feather by bending them with the fingers. Place it upright in a wine glass or a slender single flower glass in the same manner as the Fan is placed. [Fig. 10] shows the Prince of Wales’s Feather complete.