"The Cree No. 1" by Francis, Francis

Author Francis, Francis
Book A Book on Angling
Book Edition N/A
Page 347
Tags rivercree,

Material

  • Tail: Small golden pheasant topping and red parrot body
  • Body: First half yellow-orange, scarlet and claret pig's wool. Second half black pig's wool, picked out
  • Hackle: brown-red
  • Throat: Black, wound on thick
  • Rib: Thin gold tinsel doubled
  • Wing: Turkey dun. with light tips

Cites list

This pattern contains cites material. The following list is a suggestion of substitutes you can use for this pattern.

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

Original material

As written in the book:

Tail, a small topping and tuft of red parrot body, yellow-orange merging into scarlet and claret for half the body; the upper half black pig's wool, dressed roughish; hackle brown-red, with plenty of black hackle on shoulder; thin gold tinsel doubled; wing, turkey dun. with lightish tips.

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head
Small
Natural
Parrot
Latin: Order: Psittaciformes
Cites
Feather - Body Red      
Body Pig Wool
Yellow-orange
Yellow      
Pig Wool Scarlet      
Pig Wool Claret      
Pig Wool
1/2 body
Black      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck
Brown-red
Brown      
Throat Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather
Wound on thick
Black      
Rib Tinsel
Thin, doubled
Gold      
Wing Turkey
Latin: Genus: Meleagris
Feather
Dun, light tips
 

Materials in pattern

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