Question about old fly lines....Silk or not?

[black_co]

Thanks for the advise. Keep it coming.

I've already been fooled by the old nylon line once. Looked like silk, but when I stripped it, it was definitely not silk. I also found an old silk line on a reel that I purchased at a flea market and in the process of removing it from the reel and cleaning it I now have 4 chunks of silk line left, shortest is about 4 ft and longest is about 20 feet...

I'd really like to get my hands on a couple of silk lines to go with my 2 boo rods I just got off of ebay, without paying a couple hundred each that is...

I'll check out the links and check out the Schott treatise, also.

I am seriously considering building a planing form for bamboo rods, and I'm tossing around the idea of building a braiding machine. So we'll see where it goes from here.

Black Co.

Edit: I just checked and I've already read the treatise, I thought the name sounded familiar....