Originally Posted by
Royce
Seeing something as a potential tying material...My wife calls it a sickness, I call it creativity. Anyway, a co-worker makes ladies scarves, etc. out of this stuff. As you can see in the attached picture it is a yarn-like material that has individual strands coming off of the center core. I have not investigated enough to know for sure what it is made from but it definitely appears to me a synthetic material not a natural fiber.
So what potential fly tying applications do any of you see in in this? Although it doesn't show well in the picture, the black material has silver strands woven into the fibers that give it a nice sparkle.