Tartan

Dee Strip Winged Flies, Mr Brown, middle of 18th century. Pattern as per Sir Herbert Maxwell.

Tag: Gold tinsel
Tail: A red rump feather of golden pheasant
Body: Dressed thin, half orange, half scarlet pig's wool
Rib: Broad gold tinsel
Hackle: Red cock's undyed over lower two thirds of body. Above that a long-fibred blue-grey heron's rump feather, leaving a full mass at shoulder
Throat: A pintail or teal hackle, tied above the wing
Wing: Two long strips of silver-grey turkey
Head: Small and varnished