Methods of Hand Spinning in Egypt and the Sudan |
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Ababde ADVANTAGES IN PRODUCTION Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian ASYUT attenuation and twisting ball Bankfield Museum Baqt Bedouin Beni Hasan bowl Burg el Arab comber COTTON SPINNING Crowfoot distaff Dongola drafting drawing dropped Dynasty Faiyum fellahin Fellata fibres finger and thumb flax spinning Frederick Goodall G. R. CARLINE Garstang gourd Grasped Spindle hackling Hadendowa Halifax HAND SPINDLE Hand Spinning Hasan hooked stick Kababish Khety Kirdasseh Kissell Kordofan left hand Ling Roth looms Mehenkwetre Meroe method of spinning Modern Egypt Nahya Newberry Omdurman Photo Pitt Rivers Museum Plate 37 Plate 41 PROV re-spinning right hand rolls the spindle rove scutching seen Seligman shown in Plate sleevers spindle revolves spindle spinning spinners spinning cotton spinning wool spun whorl stem Sudan Supported Spindle Suspended Spindle teasing Thebes Tomb of Baqt Tomb scenes twirl the spindle Type warp thread weaving weft thread winding woman spinning women WOODEN WHORL wound yarn