The original pattern calls for crochet thread size 30 and needles size 3 in old German needle sizes.

Knit with the recommended size thread and needles, the tablecloth will be approximately 1.6 meters in diameter.

The magazine credits “Bennöder, Jockwer, Niebling, Thaemel und eigene Werkstatt” as the designers, so it’s hard to say who designed this tablecloth. Neither Jockwer nor Bennöder is represented in the Ravelry database. Thaemel has four patterns listed in Ravelry, and they have characteristics of the Cobea pattern. However, this pattern has two kinds of mesh: (yo, k2tog and yo, ssk) and (k2tog, yo twice, ssk). The latter hexagonal mesh is mostly typical of Niebling.