IT took 12 months and 40 people to make and only six people and 10 minutes to shift a large embroidery mural from Warrnambool Entertainment Centre.
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The prized work, measuring four metres by 2.15 metres, has hung on the centre's wall since it opened in 1983.
Yesterday it was placed into storage at the adjacent art gallery where it will stay until the $9.2 million entertainment centre redevelopment is completed in 2012.
The mural will then be re-hung in another prominent position.
Watching the move yesterday was Judy Loch, of the South West Embroiderers' Guild, who was part of the team which made the showpiece after raising funds by selling raffle tickets for a quilt.
"It's in remarkably good condition. It must have been the no-smoking policy," she said.
"We started planning two years before and would have had about 40 people on the team working for six months.
"The two designers, Rita Williams and Kath Milliken, guided the whole project.
"Lorna Place, who died this year at the age of 94, spent six solid weeks doing the intricate city logo.
"The whole image represents what Warrnambool was like in 1983.
"In the centre is the angel war memorial and Norfolk Island pines surrounded by prominent buildings and features.
"Unfortunately, we completed it before the whales started coming back every year."
The group's other creation, a commissioned mural for the town hall centenary in 1991, will also be stored away along with the weavers' group wall hanging of Tower Hill.
Entertainment centre manager Greg Diamantis said the works were highly regarded by the community and would be hung in prominent positions in the redeveloped centre.
