Tag: ephemera

  • Aglaia

    Aglaia

    Aglaia.  Known in the Greek mythology as one of the three graces, daughters of Zeus, Aglaia was the goddess of beauty, splendor and glory. This pattern comes from Edward Fitzgibbon’s “The book of the Salmon” from 1850 which was published under pseudonym Ephemera. The book features many fly patterns and as the last patterns the three…

  • Britannia

    Britannia

    The Britannia Rare pattern because the wing is made of feathers from the Northern Shoveler duck. The fly itself must have been pretty popular since there are vintage versions of it left today and the pattern was in three major books of the Victorian era. This is a mix of the patterns from Francis Francis,…