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Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:32 am
by wsbailey
This is the part of the book where Skues describes the different styles.
https://archive.org/details/wayoftroutw ... 8/mode/2up
Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:18 pm
by Ron Eagle Elk
Dang it, Bill. Now I have to go back and read the book again. So much information in those older books, so quickly forgotten as we age.
Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 3:55 pm
by Variant
Ron,
I am doing the same, digging into the old books again. I find it all fascinating, the history, the procurement of materials and of course the arcane terms referring to colour or shade. For instance Puce for grayish, reddish brown,Azure for sky blue and my favorite Esterhazy for silver grey! THANKS BILL
Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 5:26 pm
by wsbailey
Lou,
As a fly tyer dyer I’ve had to look up those colors. The word puce means flea in French.I dyed both light and dark puce. The colors are based on the the back and belly of a flea. The dye recipes are more than 200 years old.
http://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot. ... olour.html
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Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 5:43 pm
by wsbailey
Puce dyed hackle.
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Re: Historic English fly tying styles.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:08 am
by Ron Eagle Elk
Bill, Thank you for that fascinating bit of information. I love history.
