For smaller hooks I tye the body with black silk. Left a size 16 and right a size 18. The difference is in the shoulder material: in the larger size on hook 16 the ostrich herl is still used. For the smaller hooks I prefer to employ few turns of black syntethic dubbing. In the book ‘Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream and Kindred Studies’ published in 1914, G.E.M. Skues reports the following “official” dressing: