Studio Essentials : Chinese Brush Gift Set : 5 Mixed Hair Brushes : Wooden Box

The Studio Essentials Chinese Brush gift set is the perfect gift for the artist in your life. Chinese brush painting is the technique of using simple brush strokes to create a figure or scene. Each stroke in Chinese Brush painting is intended to be purposeful, defining and not changed or correct. The 5 weasel hair brushes are high quality, absorbent and come with a cord attached. They come presented in a beautiful decorative gift box. In the set you get;1. A large soft pure goat hair brush (the white one). 10mm hair diameter at the ferrule, 43mm hair length. Goat brushes are popular in China. Goat hair is long, at least 2 inches in length. It is very absorbent and can be shaped into a fine point when wet.2. A medium-sized brush of weasel hair (the brown one). 7mm hair diameter at the ferrule, 37mm hair length. Weasel hair is at the opposite end of the hardness spectrum in the Chinese brush scale from a goat hair brush. Called a 'hard' brush it is still absorbent and relatively soft but the hairs are stiffer and yet very flexible.3. A medium/large-sized black rabbit hair brush. 8mm hair diameter at the ferrule. 45mm hair length. Called a 'hard' brush it is still absorbent and relatively soft but the hairs are stiffer. More absorbent than weasel hair.4. & 5. A medium-sized (7mm hair diameter at the ferrule. 37mm hair length) and a small brush (6mm hair diameter at the ferrule. 20mm hair length) of mixed hairs: black rabbit hair in the centre and tip and goat hair on the outside. Medium soft. The small brush is useful for small calligraphic script.