Textile Vocabulary Question (Russian)

[Kristen Harkness]

Dear SEELANGers,

In one of her letters home from a trip to Germany, the artist Elena  
Polenova describes painting (rather negatively).  Her description  
includes the following sentence:

В темно-сером подваченном костюме,  
подле него немка, в желтом, тоже ватном  
платье, вышитом черными и белыми  
шнурками.

V temno-serom podvachennom kostiume, podle nego nemka, v zheltom,  
tozhe vatnom plat'e, vyshitom chernymi i belymi shnurkami.

I haven't been able to hunt down the word подваченный  
(podvachennyi) and the native speakers I have asked have also been  
stumped.  Maybe some sort of boiled wool?  Or is it some sort of  
quilted fabric like the dress?  Maybe it means with batting  
(ватин)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Kristen


Kristen Harkness
PhD Candidate
University of Pittsburgh
History of Art and Architecture
104 Frick Fine Arts Building
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
kmhst16 at pitt.edu




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