man-made swiss straw it is Poly-Band. Poly Band twine is made of polyethylene film which is then folded to desired width and thickness thus it has an ability to maintain a flat conformability to packages. It holds tight with no tendency to cut through packages being tied.
I have a huge roll of this in white if you would like a sample.
At 11:12 PM 2/14/2004 -0800, you wrote:
I have some medallion sheeting and it seems to be the same product as swiss straw. -Jeff
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have become enamoured with working on a may fly > "study" this year and picked up Shane Stalcup's > "Mayflies: Top to Bottom". He uses medallion > sheeting quite a bit for the wings. I have checked > many of the fly fishing/tying retailers in my area > (south eastern NH) and no one carries it. I was > wondering if anyone had any crafty suggestions as to > a substitute. I have tried the cellophanewrapper > from a box of cigaretts and a alcohol based marker > to make patterns on it. As a test it worked fine > until I wetted it and rubbed the marking off of it > (granted, I rubbed pretty hard, but you figure it > has to survive the wear and tear of a fish gnawing > on it). > > Aaron >
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