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The above link is good for 5 more days. It discusses the early linen industry in Ireland. It shows how laborious the process was and might hint at how...

Uncle Jesse, linen was also used to make sails in the Dark Ages or Middle Ages. Doped linen was used to make the covering for airplanes in WW1. I remember from my field crops class and history...

I quit using the cotton embroidery floss because of very bad experiences with it. I admit that I didn't coat it with anything. The flies were not ribbed. The bodies I made fell apart because the...

There is no closed season for tying with linen in Tennessee.
More to the point, is it durable? I'll probably get a skein and try it out.

Regards,
Ed

Having been led astray, to JoAnn's craft and fabric store website, I found many things which might prove useful to the casual fly tyer. I started using DMC floss when I was a teenager. DMC cotton...