Thank you everybody for the input.

RG/AR - I think you are on to something with teh tablet weaving. In all of Petru's flies he is using multiples of 4 colors (8 claret, 4 yellow & 4 orange braided floss). I just need to figure out how to do it around a hook. I can't imagine braiding 16 pieces of materials without a tool of some sort.

Garren