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Flowers of each Province & Big Protea
Materials
31 balls of Crochet Cotton No. 40.
This pattern needs the diagram (printed on loose sheets inside book).
Stitches used
trebles, chains, puff stitch, 4 treble popcorn in arum lilly, spaces.
Full name of cloth in book
Big Round Table-cloth with Nat. Flowers of each Province and Big Protea as our National Flower.
The circular cloth is divided into a central section (having a giant protea pictured) and 6 outer segments as follows with flowers depicted on four and text on two:
If the 11 to 1 o’clock has the text “RSA”;
then 1 to 3 o’clock has a Strelitzia reginae/Bird of Paradise/ crane flower/Ship on fire (for the former Natal province).
3 to 5 o’clock has Disa flower/ Uniflora bergius/ pride of Table Mountain is Cape of Good Hope (for the former Cape of Good Hope);
5 to 7 o’clock has text Ons vir Jou SA;
7 to about 9 o’clock has the Crinum bulbispermum /Orange River lily, Vaal River lily / Oranjerivierlelie (Afr.)/umnduze (Zulu) (for the former Orange Free State).
9 to 11 o’clock has the Arum Lily/Zantedeschia aethiopica)/ white calla lily/aronskelk/varkblom (pig lily)/ wit varkoor (Afrikaans)/ intebe (Xhosa) / ihlukwe (Zulu) (for the former province of the Transvaal ).
Plant names taken from the NRBI site.
Note the 7 to about 9 o’clock could be a Tuberose/ Syncolostemon transvaalensis.
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