A coat for a boat
An unusual art project at the Customs House has created a life-size boat completely covered in knitting. BBC 2014
Not quite traditional but definitely a wooden boat.
The snap of her taken when we took her in bits along to the Customs House on April 4th 2009 to show the Coat for a Boat Knitters the progress we had made. It served to give the boat builders confidence in that they had got the sizes of the sections about right to be able to install the finished boat without any difficulty in May for the crew knitting the coat to be able to dress her in time for the exhibition in June.
Then to prove that she more than just a clothes horse, Salma’s Dream was taken for a sail on the Tyne.
She was then cleaned and dried out and taken on a tour which included Alexandra Palace.
Knitting and Stitching Alexandra Palace 8th / 11th Oct 2009
Where is she now?