From Abbas Asaria's Guardian story:
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If you have ever eaten a meal in a bar, cafe, or restaurant in Spain and grabbed a napkin from the ubiquitous small metal dispenser on the table. you will be familiar with the most intriguing feature of the wafer-thin servilletas: how utterly functionally useless they are.
Don't bother to use them to mop up spilled liquid, as they are less likely to soak up the spillage than protect it with an impermeable barrier.
And yet these humble serviettes are a deeply cherished part of the Spanish way of life.
A floor littered with servilletas is a sign that you've entered a bar that is humble and authentic.
The serviettes' useless papery texture has one great upshot: they're easily printable with all kinds of text and monochrome imagery.
Madrid-based photographer Felipe Hernandez has been collecting these little gastronomical mementoes from down-to-earth restaurants since 2014.
By 2017 he'd accumulated more than 150, which was when he decided to start photographing them on a white marble slab he had in his studio, and uploading them to a dedicated Instagram account.
Last month he released the book "Servilletas," containing 600 of the 1,000-plus in his collection.
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