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Watch: Maharashtra artists create ‘biggest' Wimbledon logo on 100,000 sq ft field
The video shows the process, including the digging up and irrigation used to create the green in the logo using grass
The Wimbledon Twitter handle has shared an incredible video of a large crop of land in Maharashtra being used by artists to design the largest-ever Wimbledon logo.
The 57-second video depicts how a group of grass artists worked to recreate the iconic Wimbledon logo in a 100,000 square feet field in Maharashtra.
The video shows the process, including the digging up and irrigation used to create the green in the logo using grass. At the time of writing, the video had already gathered over 830,000 views on the platform.
“For two weeks, grass artists in Maharashtra worked on a field of 100,000 sq.ft to create the biggest Wimbledon logo,” read the caption.
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