The tying thread table and the accompanying article is among the most popular pages on this site. It’s about time for an update.
Back in 2014 – 11 years ago when this is written – I played around with a lot of tying threads and wrote one of the more popular articles on this site: Fly Tying Thread Blues. It was about my woes and frustrations with the way we and the industry measure and label tying threads, and covered a lot of my thoughts about the subject.
In order for the article to be more than just my opinion, I bought and acquired as many tying threads as I possibly could, and handled, tied with them and not least measured them. I also researched the subject thoroughly, and found information and specifications on as many threads as I could, which was quite a lot – although far from all the threads I had access to.
There were also threads that I couldn’t get my hands on, but I included as many as possible, and added as much information as I could on each.
It all wound up in this huge table.
The more the better! You can contact me on martin@globalflyfisher.com.
I'd love to get info on new threads, and love even more to get my hands on them.
This is – as I said – many years ago, and since the article was written and the table was made, new threads have seen the light of day, and the table has become slightly outdated.
I recently went over the table and updated it with more than 35 new threads, adding as much info as I could find on them from online sources.
I found threads from Romanian Troutline, Italian Textreme, as well as Hends, which I believe is a Czech brand.
As I write this, the number of threads in the table is closing in on 160!
It also happened that while I was browsing around for threads, I spent a little of the generously donated money from the GFF money box, and ordered the threads while I was there anyway.
So now a whole lot of new and pristine spools of tying thread are waiting for me to start using them, evaluating them and – not least – measuring them. I’ll dig out my old, trusted micrometer and go through the various brands and thread types, and then add as much additional information to the table as I can.
So, it goes as it often does with stuff published here: it evolves, gets updated and gets a touchup now and then in order to try to stay on top of the market, which is developing all the time. If you want to nerd on tying threads, go knock yourself out, and dive in. It only gets better from now on.
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