The Cullen Mural, Coventry: main length, right
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The Cullen Mural, Coventry: main length, right
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 20 Jun 2022
Dominating this end of the mural is the overlarge ribbon in the light blue associated today with Coventry City Football Club. Shown plain, the ribbons were famously intricately patterned; did Cullen miss a trick or are patterns present in the eye-teasing background tiles across the whole mural? The blue has a history: the city grew wealthy from the sale of finished wool cloth. In the 15th and 16th centuries much of it was dyed with 'Coventry Blue', a lasting fast blue dye made from woad (chemically the same as indigo), madder and sloe berries. The end section of the mural affectionately depicts Georgian buildings. Image ID: 7460185
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Image Location
Latitude
52.4081
Longitude
-1.51485