Ahhhh, my hand disappeared. Maybe this is what really happened to Paul's fingers!?! mmmm...
This is in the wine-making room in the under-ground cave dwellings in Cappadocia - apparently holes in the low ceiling were for hanging things on...
Frescoes in the ceiling of a church in the cave houses/churches.
this is at the rug making place. The vat is filled with a solution of something (possibly just water) and silk worm cocoons. The solution kills the worm that is in the cocoon and helps the silk come unwound, then they put several - like eight strands together and wind it off the cocoon and onto the big round spinning wheel(??). Each cocoon has at least a mile of super, super strong silk thread on it. Clarissa is touching the strands of thread. They have to get the cocoon before the worm comes out. The worm makes a hole in the bottom of the cocoon and wiggles out (as a butterfly or moth?) - but, when he does that the thread isn't one long piece of silk anymore!! It was fascinating learning about it - sorry I can't write it as interesting.
I'm loving these Turkey pictures!! It just makes me even more determined to go myself. And you know what happens when I get determined to do something :) Just kidding! That's really very interesting about the silk worms. I've wondered about that. I thought they kept silk worm slaves working somewhere for nothing and taking all of their silk.
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