Do you still have some cardboard tubes?
What about some simple yet really beautiful napkin holders?
The flower that looks like a rose (Satin Flower) is made in the same technique than the textile roses here, by the way.
Apart from that you can of course use different yarns instead of cord, perhaps even funky yarns?!
Possibly it was fun to use coloured yarns and little plastic toys or Lego pieces as decoration.
And it would look beautiful to make the napkin holders more in the way of the string decorated ornaments, you need less cord then ;-)
But you must paint more ;-))
And then you can always come back to my knitted/crocheted napkin rings ;-), they can be made on a cardboard tube, too, of course.
Links:
Simple and Very cool Napkin Holders
via: yine tuvalet kağıdı rulosu
Here at unikatissima:
Textile Roses
String Decorated Ornaments
Knitted/Crocheted Bangles (and Napkin Rings)
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