Brush
The brush (of Latin peniculus small tail) is a longitudinal instrument, at the end of which one generally finds hairs (or other elements allowing to absorb the matter) assembled using wire and sometimes of a ring (out of metal). The brush is used with various forms as inscriptions.
It is used in Peinture and Chinese Calligraphie (name Chinese of the brush in Pinyin: máobĭ, literally “pencil with hairs”).
The handle is mainly of wood and the hairs can be various origins:
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Animal E
- Mongoose
- Marten
- Martrette
- Small-gray
- feathers of hen (on certain Chinese brushes).
- Synthetic Pig
- synthetic hairs
- ends out of flexible rubber
- synthetic sponge (used for Chinese penmanship with water).
These hairs have various characteristics (hardness, absorption…) and are appropriate to different uses.
The brushes have various sizes and forms according to the use which one wants to make: dishes, rounds, in range, etc
The brush of Chinese penmanship, for example, absorbs the mixture of ink and water, and is as well used for penmanship as for the Lavis in the traditional painting of the Far East.
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