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Did anyone ever decrypt the meaning of the bunny napkin?

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What I knew about napkin folding would have fit into a thimble.

After a little go-ogling, this is out there which might lead someone derpy to maybe smell specific spy comms all over intricately folded napkins. Messages in plain site which would be completely lost on normies, possibly involving little MAPS, twittering birds, dna, mathematics, erotic symbols, folding software, etc.

https://www.ediblegeography.com/the-history-and-techniques-of-napkin-folding/

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..Sometimes beautiful songbirds were hidden in the napkins to charm the guests as they, twittering and fluttering their little wings, made their delightful escape..

..art of the fold is currently “undergoing huge developments,” as an understanding of the possibilities of the form can be used to “build an airbag or satellites, research DNA, discover new medications, question Euclidean mathematics, reproduce philosophical thought.” His own ambitions include developing “the erotic and even pornographic side of the art of folding..”

.. era when folding software allows almost anyone to prototype new designs almost instantaneously (leading to what origami enthusiasts called the Bug Wars of the 1990s, when folders competed to create paper models of ever more complex species), this slim and beautifully designed book is a wonderful reminder of a lost European tradition of napkin folding, and its origins in gastronomy..

https://www.etiquettescholar.com/dining_etiquette/table_manners_2.html

Or maybe its just a piece of cloth for a messy cat to wipe their mouth with.

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=napkin

napkin (n.)

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late 14c., “a table napkin, small square piece of cloth used to wipe the lips and hands and protect the clothes at table,” a diminutive of nape “a tablecloth” (from Old French nape “tablecloth, cloth cover, towel,” from Latin mappa; see map (n.)) + Middle English -kin “little.” No longer felt as a diminutive. The Old French diminutive was naperon (see apron). The shift of Latin -m- to -n- was a tendency in Old French (conter from computare, printemps from primum, natte “mat, matting,” from matta). Middle English also had naperie “linen objects; sheets, tablecloths, napkins, etc.;” also, “place where the linens are kept.” Napkin-ring is from 1680s.

Picture me, this long-tailed cat, this afternoon, chasing and batting around origami folded ornaments in a room full of rocking chairs!

Thanks Red for nudging me to expand my thinking. :)