03-03-2009, 08:04 AM
Sean Poole showed the technique to me using Coats and Clark white thread about 7 years ago. With the coats and clark white thread the color coming through is more subdued and less translucent.
Using strands from DMC embroidery thread lets the color show through with a more translucent effect. Something Sean Poole told me a few weeks later.
I have some white silk thread that I have never used because it is rolled on a cardboard cylinder that is about three inches long and I am too lazy to spool it onto a bobbin that will fit my bobbin holder. I had wondered if it would be a good thread for such a fly.
Your photos show that using the silk thread is a much better choice.
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Using strands from DMC embroidery thread lets the color show through with a more translucent effect. Something Sean Poole told me a few weeks later.
I have some white silk thread that I have never used because it is rolled on a cardboard cylinder that is about three inches long and I am too lazy to spool it onto a bobbin that will fit my bobbin holder. I had wondered if it would be a good thread for such a fly.
Your photos show that using the silk thread is a much better choice.
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