With all the high-end glassware, linens, and more that megayachts have, some stews aren’t happy about having to settle for paper napkins when there’s a big party onboard. Somehow it just seems… well, undistinguished. Obviously it’s not practical to have a few hundred printed cocktail linens—real linens—onboard for these parties.
Actually, it can be practical, thanks to a company new to the megayacht business, but whose roots go back to 1925. It’s MYdrap, which makes cotton napkins and placemats that immediately elevate a setting, yet are biodegradable and recyclable. MYdrap products specific for the yachting market are now being sold via the popular Pioneer Linens shop in Florida.
MYdrap was established in 2005, as the home and consumer-market division of Rolldrap, a Spain-based, family-run company. (In Catalan, “drap” means “napkin.”) Rolldrap targets the hospitality industry and offers various sizes of perforated cotton cloths on rolls, which saves space. It evolved when the family, whose members established an industrial textile company in Barcelona in 1925, saw the European textile industry declining in the 1990s. Rolldrap has been working with high-end hotels and resorts, so the consumer market was a natural progression.
So, too, is the megayacht market. When you consider one MYdrap roll holds 50 napkins and takes up less shelf space than a roll of paper towels, imagine how simple it would be to stow a full case, which is 10 rolls. Then consider that MYdrap has five sizes available, ranging from cocktail napkins to dinner napkins and even placemats, plus 35 colors and patterns. All of the products can be printed with the megayacht’s logo or otherwise monogrammed.
Pioneer Linens hosted an informal event with MYdrap at its stand at the Fort Lauderdale boat show last month, plus introduced the company to several megayacht crew aboard their yachts, and crew and media alike were impressed with the quality of the napkins.
For more details on sizes, colors, and pricing, contact Pioneer Linens.
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