People from rural areas around here still use the plough, but with cattle for farming. It’s old fashioned, but that’s the best most of them can afford. Maybe I’ll show you a picture if I visit a village in the future.
Grapes were grown and picked, and espadrilles for crushing grapes were used in the process of grape-stomping. Those shoes are what we see in the photo.
What!! I’d throw up drinking wine made from stomping grapes for wine making with their feet(wearing shoes technically, but still). I can’t help but think about their toes and everything getting soaked in the grape in the process and probably just washed back into the wine pot or something.
Then again, there was no room for luxury or convenience, and since they probably didn’t know there would be better ways to make the grape drinks in the future, it was seen as okay. I’m sure people from that who are still alive (very very unlikely) are fascinated by how easier and more hygienic it is to make the same grape drinks in this era.
RE: Welcome to this house from the 18th century