Spirit Fly No.3

No.3 Mixed Wing, William Blacker, 1840-1850. Pattern as per William Blacker.

Tag: Silver tinsel and morone silk
Tail: A topping mixed with green and red parrot tail
Butt: Black (Berlin wool or ostrich wool)
Body: Divided in four equal parts of silk, first puce, red, green and yellow, finally blue and orange dyed silk. Between sections a few turns of gold tinsel are tied in, plus a hackle. The colours of the hackle should be first brown, followed by green and finally puce
Throat: A very small red cock's hackle, and two red toucan feathers
Wings: Golden pheasant tippets, bustard, wood duck, teal, scarlet macaw, yellow macaw, brown mallard and a topping
Sides: Blue kingfisher
Horns: Blue and yellow tail feather (macaw)
Head: Black ostrich herl