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In general brushes are made for a specific function such as:
for making the mark of "dots"
making different quality "lines"
for different "surface rendering"

"Wolf" hair is resilient, holds its shape and points well, with these features it is ready to deliver the painting medium to the painting surface (these are the Chinese equivalent of sable). They are great for producing "dots" and "lines" of different quality.

"Goat" hair is soft and white, very fine hairs, they provide large reservoir capacity for ink holding, but tend to hoard the fluid unless it is encouraged by the surface characteristic such as absorbency or surface tension, or in combination of other hairs, as in a mixed hair brush. On its own the brushes are normally very floppy and only good for "washes" or "surface rendering".

For the serious beginner, the following brushes are recommended:

Fine dot and line brushes
Tieh Bi Jin Gou / Outstanding Drawing Brush
Available in Small, Medium & Large. The Chinese name for this brush is "Iron Stroke Silver Hook". Made of very resilient hair in the core of the brush, providing excellent control for lines or dots, a goat hair collar to provide/reservoir the supply of ink for continuous execution.

Yip Gun / Leave Vein Brush
Made entirely of "wolf" hair, chosen for its length and resilience, great for doing lines and dots.

Medium dot and line brushes
San Sui / General Landscape Brush
Made entirely of "Wolf" hair, in layers of different lengths forming the traditional conic shape, it is designed for point brush and side brush application producing textural or sinewy lines.

Dim Mui Brush / "Plum Blossom" Brush
Made of wolf hair, and designed to allow the plum blossom petal shapes to be shaped by the slightly shorter and wider brush shape.

Deer and Wolf Painting and Calligraphy Brush Large
Made of summer deer hair, (stiffer than winter hair) for its longer length, combine with wolf hair chosen for its resilience to form the traditional conic shape, designed for general purpose line and dot application.

Wash or "Surface Rendering" Brush
Extra Large Bat Wan, White Cloud Brush
The core hair is made from "rabbit" or "hare", providing slightly better control and maintaining the shape of the brush, coupled with very soft "reservoir" goat hair on the outside collar, the brush is designed for side brush application such as rendering clouds, as suggested by its Chinese name.

Extra Large "Surface Rendering" Brush
Pure Goat Hair Ti Brush Size No 3
Made of pure goat hair, it has good reservoir capacity, designed for large calligraphic marks. But when use for side brush application, it will give an excellent "wash", essential for painting large lotus paintings or splash ink techniques. Other sizes of Ti brush, smaller and larger are available.

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