Hair Stacking
and Other Applicable Stuff

Understanding hair

Intro Understanding hair Hair scales Stackers Stacking Deer, Elk and Moose Calftail and Bucktail Hand stacking Uneven stacking Cleaning hair Selecting hair References

Stacking is a method of evening the alignment of various hairs, feather parts, or perhaps other linear fly tying materials. This rearrangement may be done with like or unlike materials. Most hair types that are stacked come from animals that collectively are referred to as ruminant mammals, or, simply put, those that chew their cud.
These include

Though numerous materials are commonly stacked other than hair from these family groups (i.e., feather barbs, rodent guard hairs, etc.,) the preparation and application of the ruminant animals covers most of the problems that the fly tier will encounter.