Semperfli Kapok Dubbing

Description

Kapok is the ultimate in dubbing, very buoyant and half the thickness of superfine dubbing. A natural hollow fibre when dubbed into split thread it retains its buoyancy and will help your dry flies float better than any other natural dubbing.

Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) has been available for many years growing throughout the tropics where it is cultivated for its fibres. Kapok is a moisture-resistant, quick-drying, resilient, and buoyant fibre and weighs only one-eighth as much as cotton. Kapok has been used in life jackets and life boats, supporting as much as 30 times its own weight in water. Additionally with Kapok buoyancy is lost slowly, we have left it for DAYS in test baths and it very slowly over days absorbs water.

Traditionally Kapok is very difficult to dye however the team at Semperfli have been working with computer based dying machinery which has enabled it to bulk dye Kapok with repeatable colours every time. Working with our Pro Team we defined a range fo very natural / earthy dubbing colours to produce the best dry fly dubbing available in the market.

Individual Kapok fibres are on average 1.8cm/0.7”, with diameters of 30 to 36 micrometers (a micrometer is about 0.00004 inch) making it finer than even the smallest superfine dubbing, indeed HALF the thickness of superfine dubbings.

• High buoyant
• Deadly natural colours
• Computer controlled dying for outstanding colours
• Specially dried to avoid tangled and clumped Kapok dubbing
• Hollow natural fibres & unique dying process

Important:

Dub with split threads to ensure hollow fibres are not crushed for maximum float ability.