velour

14:00 Feb 6, 2009 

Sorry, I forgot to say in Spanish (as it's all translated from Dutch anyway) "pana y velvetón". X

13:58 Feb 6, 2009 

Thanks for all your work on this Carmen! I've now seem the "muestra" of the toy and it has various textures, one of which is smooth velour, the other is what I would call corduroy, so I think when we write the product description we will go for corduroy and velveteen, as, like you say this is 100% cotton type velour! So complicated for such a little thing, but as a mummy I know we can be very exacting for our precious little ones! ;)

Also, thank you to everyone else for all your suggestions and help!

10:15 Feb 6, 2009 

The bottom line is that velour is considered "una imitación de terciopelo" (it is usually not as nice a quality as the real velvet). Moreover, velour is also called 'velveteen' in English (velveteen is usually made of cotton while velours, however, can sometimes be made of synthetics).

20:24 Feb 5, 2009 

Well, the thing is that pana is sometimes smooth (when it is then it is velvet); when it has the texture then it becomes like corduroy.From my expriencek, the word corduroy is used in Spanish when wanting to indicate the textured kind of fabric (at least in some S.American countries)

13:27 Feb 3, 2009 

Thanks Carmen, I had read your definition :) I just thought it was strange that in English velour and corduroy are considered totally different. Maybe because corduroy used to have associations with old professors ;)

10:09 Feb 3, 2009 

Look at my answer below on pana which has the entire def. from DRAE, including:...que puede ser lisa o con hendiduras generalmente verticales."
Hopefully this last line of the def. will help with your question on texture of pana. Acc. to the def. it can be smooth or it can have the distinctive ridges of corduroy (e.g., pana can vary in texture and when it is textured vs. smooth it is more akin to corduroy; whereas, when it's smooth it's like velour/terciopelo, etc.) Hope this helps!

09:39 Feb 3, 2009 

Hi Carmen,
This is from a letter to a regular client from a new supplier of toys for babies. I asked him but he doesn't understand "velour" in castellano so I needed another term. He suggested "felpa" but I thought this was more a textural word than a textile.

Also, I've seen the translation "pana" several times - I thought this meant corduroy, which is ribbed - or are the two synonymous in castellano?
Tx

08:08 Feb 3, 2009 

"Velour" también se usa en español aunque no figura en el DRAE pero se usa mucho en publicidad de prendas de vestir (radio, etc.). ¿Dónde va dirigido el texto?

06:54 Feb 3, 2009 

I've found a description of the two fabrics here if this helps:

http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/jtatm/volume3issue4/Articles/Powell/m...

All I know is that velvet is considerably more expensive ! ;)