Burdesua [1] ( bour-de-sua , fr. Bourre de soie - “fabric from silkworms”) - silk oaks, silk raw materials of mediocre quality, obtained from damaged cocoons of a silkworm .
Burdesua fabric was inferior in price and prestige to pudesua , but not burdened with education and knowledge of the French part of Russian society did not see a difference between them. The fabric usually went to weft silk fabrics of medium and lower quality. In the 19th century, scarves and shawls were woven from Bourdesois, which, contrary to the magnificent French name, served as a social sign of certain poor provincial layers of society. “The new-fashioned shawl bur-de-sua” is mentioned in A.F. Veltman’s “Heart and Dumka” and bears an irony in relation to a literary character who claims capital elegance and acquires third-rate goods [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Bourdesois // Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language : in 4 volumes / auth. V.I. Dahl . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Printing house of M.O. Wolf , 1880-1882.
- ↑ R. M. Kirsanova . Bur-de-sua // Costume in Russian artistic culture of the 18th - first half of the 20th centuries: Experience of the encyclopedia / ed. T. G. Morozova , V. D. Sinyukova . - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1995. - S. 52-53. - 383 p.: Ill. with. - 50,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-144-0 .
Literature
- R. M. Kirsanova . Bur-de-sua // Costume in Russian artistic culture of the 18th - first half of the 20th centuries: Experience of the encyclopedia / ed. T. G. Morozova , V. D. Sinyukova . - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1995. - S. 52-53. - 383 p.: Ill. with. - 50,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-144-0 .
- R. M. Kirsanova . Bourdesois // Pink Xandrayka and the Grandfather's Handkerchief: Costume - a thing and an image in Russian literature of the 19th century / ed. E. B. Kuzmina . - M .: Book, 1989. - S. 52-53. - 286 p. - 55,000 copies. - ISBN 5-212-00130-7 .