‘Crafting the Walled City’ – a stunning crochet artwork depicting Derry’s city centre within the city walls has gone on display on the ground floor of the old Ulster Bank Building at Waterloo Place
More than 60 knitters painstakingly handcrafted the model of Derry to mark 400 years of the city’s walls.
It is currently on temporary display in the city’s old Ulster Bank building.
Artist Ainé Clarke said it had been feared it would be “boxed up and packed away” after it leaves its temporary home on 11 October.
But now Derry City and Strabane District Council has intervened to make the artwork a longer-term fixture in the city.
A council spokesman said their plan was to place the artwork “in a glass case and display it in various arts venues around the walls.”
The exact details of venues are still being finalised.
Initial explorations as to where the model would be housed permanently had proven challenging, Ms Clarke added.
She said if a permanent home had not been found it would have been “boxed up and packed away”.
Artist Aine Clarke feared the display could have been “boxed up and packed away”
She said she had lost count of the number of people who had come to see the artwork in its current home.
“Everyone seems to love it, when kids come through the door they are amazed by it,” she added.
The model features the four main streets that run from the city’s Diamond as well as some of Derry’s most notable landmarks.
It was created after the district council asked for creative ways to mark 400 years of the walls.
