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Wool Roving Hobby Craft

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Thats basically wool before its been spun into yarn. Its a very good dubbing for wet flies (as is) and for dry flies (treated with a good floatant.) It also dyes well and easily! BTW- I think your fly is a killer! Did you use hare's feet for the wing?

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ALL yarn starts out as roving. Natural fiber yarns of course start out as animal fur. The roving is then spun into yarn. Now that you know this, simply reverse the process. Comb out yarn and you can turn it back into roving which can then be used for dubbing. I have been making dubbing from yarns for well over 30 years.

 

I have found yarns both natural and synthetic that will make any kind of dubbing I want including extra fine dry fly dubbing.

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I've got some great-colored wool carpet yarn that's all matted up. I tried combing it out and used a pet brush as a hackle but it won't come clean. Any suggestions for straightening this out would be appreciated.

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Thats basically wool before its been spun into yarn. Its a very good dubbing for wet flies (as is) and for dry flies (treated with a good floatant.) It also dyes well and easily! BTW- I think your fly is a killer! Did you use hare's feet for the wing?

Thanks. Yes I have used snowshoe for the wing. I also treated the fly with watershed and it floats just fine.

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I bought 3 packages of the stuff in different colors a couple of years ago. I love to use it. You can leave it long for streamers or cut it up to make dubbing mixes. I mix it with other materials both natural and synthetic to good effect. I am thinking of dying some of it for more color variations. Try makinjg some wool sculpin patterns with it wink.png It's a very versitile material and one everyone should have in their stockpile.

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