What are the types of brushes? What about wolf hair and purple hair? Is there any difference in use?

Brush according to the raw materials can be divided into: fetal hair pen, wolf hair pen (wolf hair, that is, weasel hair), rabbit shoulder purple hair pen (purple hair), deer hair pen, chicken hair pen, duck hair pen, wool pen, pig hair pen (pig bristle pen), rat hair pen (mouse whisker pen), tiger hair pen, yellow ox ear hair pen, stone badger hair, etc., to rabbit hair, sheep hair, wolf hair is better.

Wolf hair, refers to the tail hair of the weasel made of brushes. Such as: lowercase wolf hair. A kind of brush, made of weasel (weasel) tail hair, so the name. To China's northeastern production of "Guandong Liaohao" quality is the best. Characterized by lubrication and elasticity, suitable for calligraphy and painting, mainly painting.

Purple hair refers to the purple rabbit hair made of brushes, also known as "purple hair brush", "purple frost hair". There are purple and white flowers. Take the white rabbit ridge and tail. Pure purple hair, soft and round, if both white flowers, is strong and powerful.

Expanded information:

Wolf hair brushes are made in the northeast of China. North Wolf Hair", "Guandong Liao Tail". Wolf hair than sheep hair pen strength, suitable for calligraphy and painting, but not as durable as sheep hair pen, the price is also more expensive than sheep hair.

Common varieties of orchids and bamboo, writing, landscape, flowers, leaf tendons, clothes, red beans, small fine work, deer wolf hair calligraphy (wolf hair added to the deer hair made), leopard wolf hair (wolf hair added to the leopard hair made of), special long peaked wolf hair, long peaked wolf hair, superb, and so on.

The surface of the wolf hair brush is tender yellow or yellow with a slight red color, glossy, and each hair is solid and upright when you look at it carefully. The waist is thick, the root is a little thin. Wet the tip of the pen pinched into a flat type that can be seen through the hair blade is bright, light yellow.

Wolf tail hair is the longest 6 centimeters (including 1 centimeter in the bucket) originated in the northeast, the price is particularly expensive. The length of the common wolf hair brush is 4-5 centimeters.

The market common wolf hair pen is mostly made of yellow horse hair or yellow cow hair for the cloak hair, there are some fake wolf hair pen is dyed yellow with goat hair made of nibs, the surface of the yellowish-brown or reddish-brown, the root of the color is slightly lighter or slightly gray. The price of fake wolf hair is less than 10% of the price of real wolf hair, almost unusable.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Purple Hairpin

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Wolf Hair

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Brush