How To Fold Your Towels Into A Gorgeous Rose

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Sure, a stack of plain towels folded neatly on the bathroom counter makes for a nice display. However, if you'd like to create a showstopping bathroom towel exhibition, consider adding towel origami to your home beautifying skills – specifically, rose-making towel origami. This easy-to-learn bathroom towel enhancer adds charm and class to your guest bathroom for a party, or even to your regular bathroom just because. The trick is to use the right kind of towels and a few embellishments that take your washcloths from towel to bouquet.

These bathroom roses are made from washcloths, and if you want them to be exceptionally pretty, you should use exceptionally pretty towels. Therefore, the best material for bathroom towels for this display is Egyptian cotton. Due to the cotton's admirably long fibers, washcloths that are made from it are luxuriously soft, yet strong. Turkish washcloths are another good option. The fibers on these bathroom essentials are almost as long as those on Egyptian cotton. As such, they dry very quickly. Either type of towel would be appropriate to make this luxe display.

And because you're making roses out of the washcloths, you'll want to choose washcloths of the right color. On the simplest level, this might mean selecting pink towels to decorate a pink bathroom. However, you can also tap into the color symbolism of roses if you'd like your display to say more. For example, yellow roses have long denoted friendship. Putting yellow origami towel roses in the guest bathroom when you're hosting your childhood best friend for a week adds a sweet, yet subtle emotional touch to the display.

One or two roses in this display are pretty, but a half a dozen or more is impressive and the makings of a bouquet. As such, you may want to buy a pack of six or 12 White Classic luxury cotton washcloths for this bathroom beautification project to ensure that you have enough of them for your display. When you're ready to work with the towels, lay one out flat in front of you and fold it in half from corner to corner, to form a triangle. Begin rolling it up a little from the wide bottom, so that you end up with a thin roll of towel and two triangle-shaped pieces at the top. Leave them be for now. 

Now, turn the piece over. Grab one of the ends and roll it up until there's about two inches of unrolled towel "tail" left on the opposite end. The result should look a bit like a jelly roll with two triangular pieces jutting out of the top. Tuck the towel tail into the top folds of the roll. Fold those triangle pieces down over the roll to create two outer petals on the rose. Repeat this process until you have enough roses for your display.

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Make the arrangement prettier by adding a couple of decorative touches. For example, if you want to secure the roll, tie some green OMAIGAR satin ribbon around it. Trim the ends at a point to make them look like leaves. Place your half-dozen to dozen towel roses in an open basket to enhance the bouquet-like appearance of the roses and to really dress up your bathroom storage display.