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Recreating Lost Colors
- unwind 8y agoReally interesting, and what a cool niche to work in (although I also think it would be ... frustrating). This part didn't parse for me: [...] racks of wooden-handled brushes with bristles made from rat’s tail fur and the hair of pearl divers. The hair of what? Can "pearl diver" mean something else than a human diver, hunting for pearls? Do they really donate their hair to make brushes? Why them? What ... ?
- jacobush 8y agoMaybe their hair gets a certain quality from being exposed to sea water for many hours.
- davegardner 8y agoFrom what I've discovered, it must be a Japanese Lacquer Brush. Traditionally these are made from the hair of pearl divers, "selected as the finest and densest fibre."[1] Another reference I found quotes that "They say that the salt strengthens the hair"[2] [1] http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/01/12/pedro-da-costa-felgueiras-lacquer-paint-specialist-japanner/ http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/01/12/pedro-da-costa-felgue... [2] https://www.nippon.com/en/views/b02309/ https://www.nippon.com/en/views/b02309/
- tomcooks 8y agoHaving built my own brush out of a (deceased) fox tail hair made me appreciate the skill and patience it takes to produce an usable, precise tool
- allan_golds 8y agoPAYWALL