"The Silver Doctor" by Francis, Francis

Author Francis, Francis
Book A Book on Angling
Book Edition N/A
Page 335

Material

  • Hook: No.6 to No.10
  • Tag: Silver tinsel
  • Tail: Gold pheasant topping
  • Butt:A turn of red crewel
  • Body: Silver tinsel
  • Hackle: Blue
  • Throat: Brown hackle and a small speckled gallina
  • Wing: Mostly pintail, with a few red and blue fibres
  • Topping: Two golden pheasant toppings
  • Heads: Red crewel

Original material

As written in the book:

Tag, silver tinsel; tail, gold pheasant topping; a turn of red crewel over the stump of it for the but; body, silver tinsel; hackle blue, as before, with a brown hackle at the shoulder, and a small speckled gallina over it; wing, chiefly of pintail, with a few red and blue fibres, and two toppings over it; red crewel head

Long material list

Part Material Type Color
Tag Tinsel Silver      
Tail Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head Natural
Butt Crewel
One turn
Red      
Body Tinsel Silver      
Hackle Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Blue      
Throat Chicken - Cock
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Feather - Neck Brown      
Guinea Feather
Small-speckled
Natural
Wing Pintail
Latin: Anas acuta
Feather Natural
Feather
Few fibers
Red      
Feather
Fiew fibers
Blue      
Topping Pheasant - Golden
Latin: Chrysolophus pictus
Feather - Head
Two
Black      
Other Crewel Red      

Materials in pattern

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