Local ethnographic museum from "Ivan Vazov" gimnasium, village of Stoianovca

A winch is an ancient wooden device used to wind yarn and prepare it as a base for further weaving. It is a wooden stick with a fork at one end, made from a branch, and a wooden plank fixed perpendicularly to the other end. The yarn is wound lengthwise along the length of the bobbin, passing between the two horns of the fork and over the wooden plank below.