Iliad to be stitched as tale of colourful characters

PhD stduent Silvie Kilgallon sets herself epic task of transposing Greek poet's writings to cloth via individual fabric letters

A student is making a stitch in time by embroidering all 24 books of Homer's Iliad. Silvie Kilgallon has set herself the mammoth task of representing each letter in the ancient Greek text with an individual stitch.

The University of Bristol PhD student is denoting different letters in varying shades of red for the first book. She will then change the colour of one letter in the alphabet for each book from red to blue with the final book being all blue.

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