Good job Norman. Your tutorial, and history of the thread midge is very informative. Basicaly a one material fly that can be so diverse. I too have been using the thread midges for almost as many years, but only started using the Coats&Clark thread for the past ten years.

There have been alot of inovations in tieing with new materials since the thread midges made an impression on me. Patterns like the JuJu Midge have gained in popularity (with good reason), but when the dust has settled, I still use the thread midges the most.