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- ↑ "First 'Coventry Blue' to be revealed at historic Weaver's House", Coventry Observer
- ↑ "The City of Coventry: Crafts and industries, Modern industry and trade", A History of the County of Warwick, vol. 8, the City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick, London: Victoria County History, 1969, pp. 162–169
- ↑ As True as Coventry Blue, The Weaver's House
- ↑ "366 places in Coventry to be painted 'Moving Blue' ahead of UK City of Culture 2021", www.theculturediary.com
- ↑ Mary H. M. Hulton (1995), 'True as Coventry Blue', Coventry Branch of the Historical Association, ISBN 1873206216
- ↑ James Robinson Planché (1876), "Lace (Bride)", A Cyclopaedia of Costume, Chatto & Windus, p. 324
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