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Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:43 pm
by letumgo
Ron,
There is a chance that the top fly is tyed with Pearsall's Marabou silk floss. Marabou has multiple strands of silk, and can be split down to suit the tyers intent. If the strands are twisted together, they would form a hefty body, with pronounced segmentation.
Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:19 pm
by daringduffer
What if you twist three strands together?
dd
Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:02 pm
by ronr
Im guessing this must be the Naples... the size being 50% larger seems about right... the material in the top fly is definitely not a flat thread... I bought Alec Jackson's #19 silk floss thinking that might have been the right stuff, but it was not the same..
I will try twisting a few strands of Gossamer together and see how that turns out.... thanks for the responses
Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:49 am
by bearbutt
The UK forum didn't cite the source; it's from Edmonds and Lee, Brook and River Trouting. Here's a picture from the first (1916) edition, which was privately printed:
I'd prefer to get a scan, but doing so would compromise the binding; I need to wait until I can get access to an overhead book scanner.
bb
Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:34 am
by Greenwell
Interestingly enough, when I was in Yorkshire last month, Rob Smith took me by the building in the city of Bradford where the silk color charts were produced for well over a century. If you have or have seen a Pearsalls Silk Color Chart it was made in this building.
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Sorry it's flipped, some glitch keeps messing it up but at least you can see what the place looks like if you cock your head!
Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:41 pm
by daringduffer
John, you probably had a couple of pints to many
dd
Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:05 pm
by daringduffer
This chart is different:
No 2, Straw
No 4, Light Yellow
No 6B, Sherry Spinner
No 10, Ash
Those are some of the differences. No 7, Blue in gossamer. You find the rest.
(No doesn't mean number, it means no. See?).
dd
Edit: Link to source:
http://www.ftscotland.co.uk/gallery/tem ... rs-001.jpg
Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:14 pm
by daringduffer
Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:28 pm
by Bazzer69
Here is. Pearsalls colour chart I found recently. It’s for embroidery silks but interestingly enough all the colour patches are of real silk thread. However none of the numbers seem to relate to Gossamer thread. I’m amazed at the large numbers of shades!
Barry
Re: Pearsalls Color Chart
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 11:50 am
by driftless
I've been searching for silks to substitute Pearsall's colors, too.
One I've found that is a VERY close sub for 6B Sherry Spinner is Kimono Silk thread #370 Teriyaki.
Take a look at it on line & see what you think.
Paul