The flocks of cotton, collected in straw woven baskets and placed into large jute bags, are transported to the collection point on the shoulder or with the help of work animals such as donkeys, horses and camels.

The Nile has always been used for the transport of goods.
A wooden model of a classic felucca full of cotton bags.

A barge loaded with bales of cotton.

Cotton bales transported on rail tracks with a steam locomotive.

A truck loaded with bales of cotton.

Peasants and small independent farmers take heavy bales to sell to the Cotton Exchange on small hand-pulled wagons.

The tufts of cotton are manually mixed with the traditional "coltsfoot" method, to carry out an initial removal of foreign particles. Typically, this takes place on surfaces of dense wooden slats raised above the floor, so that the heavy residues of leaves or small branches fall through the cracks, leaving the clean flocks on the surface.