{"id":14624,"date":"2024-09-07T23:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=14624"},"modified":"2024-09-07T23:47:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:47:26","slug":"the-arnolfini-wedding-and-wenvoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=14624","title":{"rendered":"The Arnolfini Wedding and Wenvoe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Arnolfini Wedding and Wenvoe<\/span><\/p>\n

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What connects this famous painting – the Arnolfini Wedding by Jan van Eyck – with Wenvoe?<\/p>\n

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The garment the bride is wearing is edged with white fur but more on that later. Whilst we prefer our wildlife to be alive and flourishing these days, history confirms how animal fur from earliest times kept us warm and, later, fashionable. Peers of the realm often wore and can still be seen wearing at big state events a white fur with black spots. This is the fur of the Stoat recorded not so long ago near Burdons Farm. The white fur is its winter coat and is called Ermine. The stoat has a black tip to the tail, hence the black spots on ceremonial gowns. Sable is another fur from a weasel-like animal.<\/p>\n

Less well-known is Miniver although you may have come across Mrs Miniver, a wartime film of 1942. Miniver is the white fur from the Red Squirrel, and it is this that provides the edging to the bride’s dress in the painting featured. The Grey Squirrel was only introduced to the UK in the nineteenth century, some say from 1876. Whilst there are no Red Squirrels anywhere near Wenvoe these days we do seem to have reasonable numbers of weasels as they have been appearing on our wildlife cameras.<\/p>\n

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