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2. Paintbrush - Wikipedia

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   A decorator judges the quality of a brush based on several factors: filament retention, paint pickup, steadiness of paint release, brush marks, drag and precision painting. A chiseled brush permits the painter to cut into tighter corners and paint more precisely. Brush handles may be made of wood or plastic while ferrules are metal (usually ...

3. Four Treasures of the Study - Wikipedia

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   A highly decorative badger hair brush dating to the Ming Dynasty.. The brush (simplified Chinese: 毛笔; traditional Chinese: 毛筆; pinyin: máo bǐ, Korean: 붓 but, Vietnamese: 筆 bút, Japanese: 筆 fude, Ryukyuan: fudi) is the oldest of the Four Treasures, with archaeological evidence dating to Zhou dynasty (1045 BC–256 BC) illustrations on ancient bones.

4. Ink wash painting - Wikipedia

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   Ink wash painting brushes are similar to the brushes used for calligraphy and are traditionally made from bamboo with goat, cattle, horse, sheep, rabbit, marten, badger, deer, boar and wolf hair. The brush hairs are tapered to a fine point, a feature vital to the style of wash paintings. [3] [13] Different brushes have different qualities.

5. Shaving brush - Wikipedia

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   Best badger are brushes made with the finer and more pliable hairs from 20 - 25% of the badger's body. It is longer in length and lighter in color than 'pure' badger hair. A 'best' badger brush is more densely filled with hair than the 'pure' badger brush and will produce a correspondingly greater lather.

6. Kent Brushes - Wikipedia

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   A Kent Brushes badger-hair shaving brush G. B. Kent & Sons (trading as Kent Brushes [ 1 ] ) is a British manufacturer of brushes and one of the country's oldest independent companies. [ 2 ] It was established in London in 1777 by William Kent, and manufacturing moved to its current site at Apsley, Hertfordshire , in 1901.

7. Filbert paintbrush - Wikipedia

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   Tip of a filbert brush. The filbert paintbrush is a paintbrush used in artwork. It has a thick ferrule and hairs that are, on average, medium to long hairs in the shape of an oval. Filberts are particularly effective in blending work, usually of a figurative nature.