Like any canny shopper I am always prepared to pounce on a bargain, however common sense occasionally overcomes my lust to acquire fly tying supplies. Many of the synthetic materials we use for flies come from other industries, on occasion I stumble across a lifetime supply, when only a couple hundred yards will do.
Anyone need chenille? Pretty fair deal, 2500 yards for only $14.00 . Five colors available, Taupe wooly buggers times infinity – 46 lbs available. Need some lead wire for all those buggers? 25lbs is a tad much for me, but you’ll need it.
Sometimes I hate Google.
Better than any rayon chenille you will use is cotton chenille. Hille sells it as honey chenille in small lots but you can buy it in skeins on ebay. The quality and colors are more subtle and lifelike. It is also denser and when wet has a translucency that only cotton provides. It is really a great material and I am surprised that it has not made it into the pool of general supplies.
I think the issue with cotton is rotting. You may put a damp fly box away at the end of the season and the chenille can rot under certain circumstances.
Cotton chenille works fine in all other respects.