A 1931 Bankfield Museum Notes monograph by Grace M. Crowfoot surveying hand-spinning methods in Egypt and the Sudan. It classifies methods into types (hand spinning, hooked stick, spindle rotated in the hand, grasped, supported, and suspended spindle) and describes each from her field observations of wool, flax and cotton spinning among named peoples and villages. It compares modern practice with Ancient Egyptian tomb scenes and weaving models (Daga, Baqt, Khety, Mehenkwetre, Beni Hasan), and covers spindles, whorls, doubling and warping. Illustrated with many photographic plates, line drawings, summary tables, appendices and an index.

Two-part note on the model of Egyptian textile work found in an XIth dynasty tomb at Thebes by Winlock and Burton. H. Ling Roth describes the model from photographs, comparing its flax preparation, spinning, warping and two horizontal looms with the XIIth dynasty wall drawing in the tomb of Tehuti-hetep. G. M. Crowfoot then compares the model with spinning, warp laying on pegs and horizontal two-beam looms she saw in the Sudan, and discusses the puzzling wooden implements beside the looms. Illustrated with the model, the wall drawing and diagrams of a Sudani warp and wooden implements.