She and around 150 others — mostly elderly women — have spent the past three months painstakingly crocheting the wool-yarn roses that will become the centrepieces of the medallists' posies.
A woolen version was chosen because, unlike a perishable real bouquet, it can serve as a lifelong keepsake.This photo taken on Jan 19, 2022 shows hand-made wool bouquets for medallists at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, in Shanghai. Before the Olympics, the women spent much of their time making high quality sweaters, socks, scarfs, hats and even whole dresses for charitable associations, which were typically then donated to the needy to help them through China's chilly winter.
Their Olympic contribution — a project brought to them by the Shanghai Women's Federation — is easily the group's biggest and most important undertaking yet. Each craftswoman uses a ball of yarn, two needles and more than 50 stitch types, taking several hours to make each rose.Finished roses are sent off to be combined with other elements — olive branches, laurel, hydrangeas, lilies and osmanthus — created by other clubs around the country.It's exacting labour, and most of the Shanghai grannies have bandages wrapped around their fingers to protect them.
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