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Fur body without hackle. In this case you can 

 either make the taper before you wind on the fur, 

 or you can increase the quantity of fur on the 

 tying silk, and wind it more closely as you pro- 

 gress. If you choose the first, take a well waxed 

 doubled piece of tying silk, and tie it in close to 

 the butt ; wind the original tying silk closely 

 and evenly up the body, and tie in a piece of floss 

 silk as shown. Cut off the end of the floss silk, 



Fig. 29. 



wind one more turn of the tying silk towards 

 the head, and leave it hanging with the pliers 

 attached. Now, wind the floss evenly down 

 to the butt, and back again up the body, forming 

 a taper as you do so : wind a turn or two of the 

 tying silk over to fasten the floss off, cut the end 

 of the latter off, and leave the silk hanging, pliers 

 attached. Now, take some fur, spin it on to the 



