"River Tweed: No.4" by Blacker, William

Author Blacker, William
Book The Art of Angling
Book Edition December 8th 1843
Page 100

Material

  • Hook: No.7 to 9, Limerick
  • Tail: Two long golden pheasant toppings, veiled with kingfisher
  • Tag: Blue
  • Body: Yellow green floss silk, or mohair
  • Rib: Flat and round tinsel
  • Hackle: Yellow green, or golden plover from the centre
  • Throat: Blue jay
  • Wing: Two golden pheasant toppings, two cock of the rock tail or rump, argus pheasant, yellow green parrot tail, red ibis, blue and yellow macaw, orange macaw
  • Sides: Kingfisher
  • Head: Black

Cites list

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Animal Substitutes
Parrot
  • Feather - Tail => Swan : Feather - Wing
  • Feather - Tail => Turkey : Feather - Tail
Macaw

Original material

As written in the book:

Body - yellow green floss silk, or mohair, blue tag, ribbed with flat tinsel and round twist. Legs - yellow green, or golden plover hackles from the centre up, blue jay at the trottle. Wings - two toppings, two feathers of the cock of the rock tail or rump, mixed with argus pheasant, both shades, (there are three or four different kinds of colour in this beautiful bird, a native of Australasia,) yellow green parrot tail, red ibis, blue and yellow macaw, the orange macaw back feathers, blue king-fisher each side. Black head. Tail two long golden pheasant toppings with a king- fisher at the roots. Hook, from No, 7 to 9, Limerick.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head
Two. Long
Natural
Kingfisher
Latin: Alcedo atthis
Feather
Veiling for topping
Blue      
Tag Silk Blue      
Body Silk
Yellow green, or mohair
Yellow      
Rib Tinsel - Flat  
Round Tinsel  
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck
Yellow green. Or golden plower. From center
Yellow      
Throat Blue Jay Feather - Wing Blue      
Wing Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head
Two
Natural
Cock of the rock Feather - Tail
Or rump
Natural
Pheasant - Argus
Latin: Argusianus argus
Feather Natural
Parrot
Latin: Order: Psittaciformes
Cites
Feather - Tail
Yellow green
Yellow      
Ibis
Latin: Eudocimus ruber
Feather - Tail Red      
Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather - Tail
Blue and yellow
Blue      
Macaw
Latin: Tribe: Arini
Cites
Feather Orange      
Sides Kingfisher
Latin: Alcedo atthis
Feather Blue      
Head Varnish Black      

Materials in pattern

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