Textile Vocabulary Question (Russian)

[Olga Meerson]

It means with an extra-layer of cotton (vata). I knew Elena Polenova in Russia--an acquaintance of my mother and a close friend of my Godmother's daughter and a couple of mutual friends. A very interesting person.

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From: Kristen Harkness <kmhst16 at PITT.EDU>
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008 4:36 pm
Subject: [SEELANGS] Textile Vocabulary Question (Russian)

> 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:
> 
> ? ?????-????? ??????????? ???????,  
> ????? ???? ?????, ? ??????, ???? ??????  
> ??????, ??????? ??????? ? ??????  
> ????????.
> 
> 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 ???????????  
> (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  
> (?????)?
> 
> 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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