Japanese crossword «Goat»
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A fanciful conversation on nonograms.ru about this image--is mother goat wearing a sheepskin coat? is she going for milk for her kids?
Of most interest, apparently she's not wearing skates but *bast* shoes--Slavic shoes made by hand of materials like bark and lime, apparently in use since the stone age.
A fascinating article on bast shoes (written by a non-native English-speaker, but well-illustrated and including the modern rejection of these historic treasures as "peasant shoes" worn by "the ignorant") can be found at https://www.slavorum.org/russian-bast-shoes-to-peasant-or-not-to-peasant/
It's amazing what you can learn about a culture simply by studying its shoes!!!
replyOf most interest, apparently she's not wearing skates but *bast* shoes--Slavic shoes made by hand of materials like bark and lime, apparently in use since the stone age.
A fascinating article on bast shoes (written by a non-native English-speaker, but well-illustrated and including the modern rejection of these historic treasures as "peasant shoes" worn by "the ignorant") can be found at https://www.slavorum.org/russian-bast-shoes-to-peasant-or-not-to-peasant/
It's amazing what you can learn about a culture simply by studying its shoes!!!