Seana Marena (Victoria England)

This blanket was exclusively for the king and chiefs and their wives. It has the highest status of all the Basotho Blankets. The word means, “to swear by the king”. 

A limited number of these blankets are deliberately manufactured each year, to create a kind of “scarcity” and demand.

The first Victoria blanket was manufactured in England. After 1920 it was manufactured in South Africa and the small writing ‘made in England’ on the label posed a problem. To exclude it would mean to remove half of the tradition form the blanket label. 

The words ‘made in’ were taken out and the word ‘England’ left. It became the Victoria England. Although it was manufactured in South Africa most people still believed that it was manufactured in England.