![]() ![]() Yarn made from other animals’ hair is also available and especially exported by China. Horse hair wefting/strip (cloth made from horse hair), curled horse hair (used for padding and filling of mattresses, chair seats, etc.), and hair from other parts of the bodies of horses, like mane, leg, hoof and root tail hair are available for different applications. In the Orient, brushes made from tiger hair (very rare nowadays – it is said the best tiger hairs are obtained by plucking from a startled wild animal) goat’s eyelashes, squirrel and rat whiskers, and even human baby hair taken from the first haircut, are considered novelties.ĭressed horse tail hair, available in many (natural and dyed) colours and lengths, processed into yarn is used for many things like making horse tail cloth which is a stiff fabric (used for lining, cases and bags, upholstery, etc.), in bow hair, rocking horses, tail extensions, wigs, braiding art, jewellery, and brushes. ![]() Brushes can contain hair obtained from two or three different animals. Paint brushes with animal hair used by artists are usually of sable, red sable (red haired weasel – red sable has replaced ermine), wolf (combination of sable and weasel), fitch (polecat of weasel family), sabeline (light coloured ox-hair dyed red), kolinsky (a mink specie of China), badger, pig/hog/boar, kevrin (fine mongoose hair), pony, goat, rabbit, monkey, cat, sheep, horse (most common in Japan), sambar (hair from the back of deer, also common in Japan) or different types of squirrel hair (Kazan, blue, Canadian/golden and Taleutky squirrels). (The boot polish itself could contain beeswax and other animal ingredients.) Bristles are black, white or mixed in colour and depending upon the process of manufacture are called boiled, washed or bleached. Shoe shine brushes made of horse hair are also common. In places like Udaipur, squirrel hair brushes are used for miniature art and are said to create lines thinner than those made with an architect’s pencils.Īnimal hair brushes used for boot-polishing, painting walls and art-work are made from pig/hog/boar bristles. Nowadays some wall painting brushes are also made of goat hair. The hair is usually from the tails of squirrels, weasels and civet cats, but the hair of badger, racoon, cattle, dog and deer also falls into this category. ![]() “Animal fine hair” is used for making cosmetic brushes. Hog/pig/boar bristles (also referred to as China or Chungking bristles) are most commonly used, although sable, mongoose, cow, goat and squirrel hair could be utilised in brushes for different applications. ![]() Squirrel: Canadian/golden squirrel, Kazan squirrel, Blue squirrel, Taleutky squirrel, squirrel whiskers tooĪ negligible percentage of non-animal hair brushes are sold world-wide as they do not satisfy users. Sable: kolinsky/Chinese mink, red sable, brown sable, weasel, mongoose Hog/Boar/Pig: China/Chungking bristles, natural and white bristles Natural hair can have been derived from the following animals or may even be human hair:Ĭamel: ox (hair from ears), pony, bear, sheep, goat, squirrel Brushes are natural (stiff bristle or soft hair – both of animal origin) or synthetic (non-animal).ĭifferent types of brushes are utilised and found suitable for specific applications like painting and cleaning: ![]()
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