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Shakespeare Sonnet 3 (III) on Parchment Napkins

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A good celebration is as much about the presentation as it is about food. Serve up the party with custom personalized paper napkins that look good tucked in the collar or draped over your lap.

  • Dimensions: 4.75"l x 4.75"w (folded), 3 ply
  • Printed in full color on your choice of white or ecru colored napkins
  • Coined or standard napkin styles available
  • Sold in quantities of 50
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  • This product is food contact safe
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Shakespeare Sonnet 3 (III) on Parchment Napkins

Shakespeare Sonnet 3 (III) on Parchment Napkins

What would life be without poetry in general - or Shakespeare in particular? A while back, I decided to make products using Shakespeare's sonnets, but I felt my design was a bit unfulfilled at the time, so I revamped it a bit to something more to my liking. Traditional yet original. The background is a parchment texture I made a while back, and I also found a calligraphic typeface for it that has the almost unique feature of having both historical gravity as well as modern legibility. Obviously there are lots of sonnets to get through, so if you like this design, but cannot find your favourite work by the bard already made in it, please email me at mail@galleryhakon.com to let me know and I'll get to it right away. This particular one is sonnet 3 (III), which reads: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity? Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. But if thou live, rememb’red not to be, Die single, and thine image dies with thee.

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By Sandra R.August 19, 2025Verified Purchase
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Excellent detail. The party concept was barbershop conversations. Napkins were half folded, placed along other objects. Will I reorder again, surely will be. Next concept, I can't tell you.🙂 Thanks .
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By Elizabeth J.May 10, 2022Verified Purchase
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Excellent quality and adorable image. Excellent printing and appeared just as I hoped
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Great 👍🏽 Very good job. Would recommend. 👍🏽 Very well!! Really good job

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Product ID: 256874619932563600
Created on: 10/6/2014, 11:25 AM
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