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wards all the time (see Fig. 35). After each 

 turn the fibres should be smoothed backwards 

 with the right forefinger and thumb, the 

 hackle being held " in stop " by the left 

 middle finger in the meanwhile. 



Continue winding in this way towards the 



FIG. 36. 



FIG. 37. 



head until the turns reach the point where the 

 ribbing tinsel ends, then unhitch the silk and 

 wind it closely from the last previous coil 

 towards the head until only just sufficient of 

 the bare shank of the hook is exposed as will 

 suffice to form the head, and wind the hackle 

 closely and evenly over these turns of silk up 



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