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Hackle, dubbing, thread and beads

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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A tyer owns hundreds of colours and a few grams of each.

Hackle

Sold as a cape or a saddle, graded by size and colour, and stored flat or hanging rather than in a jar. The feather must not be crushed and the individual feathers must stay findable by size.

Which this shelf cannot serve

A cape is a flat skin. There is nothing flat here, and 59 jars against 275 bottles does not help either. Hackle storage is a box problem.

Dubbing

Loose fibre, natural or synthetic, in dozens of colours and a few grams each. It clings, it compresses, and it is pulled out in pinches.

Which is a small wide jar, repeated

22 PET single wall jars here and 100 containers at 30 mL or under. A dubbing collection is the clearest case in this craft for a set of identical small jars.

Clear matters more than anything

Dubbing is chosen by colour against a vice, and colours are close. 71 clear containers against 79 white, which is the wrong way round for this leaf.

Thread

Spooled, by denier and colour, and the spool is the container. The storage problem is a rack rather than a jar, and the catalog has nothing to say about it.

Beads

Brass, tungsten and glass, by diameter in fractions of an inch and by finish. Tiny, heavy, and they roll, which makes a lidded container non-negotiable.

And they are the one thing here that must not mix

A 2.8 mm and a 3.2 mm tungsten bead look identical and weight the fly differently. Mixed bead jars are the most common and most annoying failure in this craft.

So label in words and numbers, not colour

Diameter and material on the body of the container. Around one in twelve men cannot separate a colour code reliably, and bead finishes are close to each other anyway.

One size of jar, many of them

Which is the same conclusion the model parts property reaches. A tray of identical small jars is a system; a drawer of assorted ones is a search.

References

The archetype behind this shelf is store-small-dry: 15 to 500 mL, wide mouth, PP and PET and glass, cold, solid, chunky, scooped, with "small dry parts, wide mouth to get fingers in, clear so you can see what is inside" as its stated reason. Four of the six leaves are dry sorting crafts it describes well, and the shelf does not follow it: 275 of 335 containers are bottles.
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The fly tying shelf is 716 rows: 335 containers and 381 closures. 5 mL to 250 mL with a median of 59; 30 containers at 15 mL or under, 100 at 30 or under, 204 at 60 or under, and nothing above 250 mL. 165 PET, 84 glass, 62 HDPE, 24 PP. 275 bottles, 59 jars, 1 tube. 79 white, 71 clear, 61 amber, 42 blue, 24 natural, 19 black. Closures: 260 continuous thread, 43 dropper assemblies, 20 dome lids, 16 flip top, 14 phenolic, 9 liners and sealing discs, 6 specialty, 6 dropper tips and caps, 3 euro droppers.
Written from 16 U.S.C. 703(a) and 50 CFR 10.13, and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. This property does not say which species are on the protected list, because that is a lookup against 50 CFR 10.13 rather than something to assert from memory. CITES, the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act can each reach exotic tying materials independently and none of them is read here.