Giant Dr Who scarf goes on show for 60 year exhibition in Weston

The scarf currently measures about 23ft

Volunteers from around the South-West are knitting the "longest ever" Dr Who scarf.

This is in celebration of the Dr Who exhibition at Weston Museum, titled Adventures in Time and Space - 60 years of Dr Who art.

The exhibition features the largest collection of original art from and about the show.

The event will run in Weston-super-Mare until 27 January 2024, when the exhibition moves on to Taunton.

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Learnings and event officer at Weston Museum, Katherine Bell said: "[The scarf] is about 23ft at the moment but it is ever growing.

"We have a wonderful group of volunteers across the museum. Some of our knitters are some of the staff, but we have people from further afield and we are encouraging everyone to knit a piece of the scarf.

"Sustainability is very important to us, so there is purposefully no set pattern, set colours nor set yarn type. You can use whatever you have available."

The original Dr Who scarf was worn by the 4th Doctor, Tom Baker.

Legend has it that the costume designer for the show gave a knitter a big bag of mixed wool and asked her to knit a scarf. The designer expected the knitter to pick the wool that she liked from the bag, but instead she used up all the wool and created the very long and now iconic Dr Who scarf.

Ms Bell added: "Once we've had some fun wrapping up various things in our awesome scarf we plan to chop it down into standard lengths and these will then go towards our Warm Bundles Project.

"We've been working with other community organisations to gather bundles that are given to homeless people. This means that our long scarf will go to a good cause."