Chinese Brushes occupy one of the special areas in our shop, as we have a great many types and the whole subject is complex, the following details should help your understanding. The greatest care has been applied to every brush, both in the manufacture and in its particular use and application. Chinese brushes divide into 3 main groups of hair, these are GOAT, WOLF and MIXED hair. Click here to go to 3x selections of these brush types.

FAIRY GRIP BRUSHES - FOR YOUR INSPIRATIONAL CALLIGRAPHY

Fairy Grip - Brush details
This kind of brush is for highly controlled strokes, normally reserved for calligraphy writing, for instance when inspired by Poetry or Divine expressions.

The brush has mixed hair content to get this long size of brush, having control, without the soft hair problems associated with white goat hair .brushes. Note the handles are short, as they are held from above and gripped with all fingers and thumb, (allows for free movement in any needed stroke direction). Hence the name Fairy Grip.

Available in three sizes, the smallest has the hair and handle sizes as follows:
Hair length: 68mm
Hair breadth at the base: 20mm
Handle length: just 80mm

The Medium has the hair and handle sizes as follows:
Hair length: 73mm
Hair breadth at the base: 24mm
Handle length: just 80mm

The Large brush has the hair and handle sizes as follows:
Hair length: 85mm
Hair breadth at the base: 30mm
Handle length: just 80mm

The handles are lathe turned wood and varnished, with a strong silk loop for hanging on top.
You can buy these brushes for
Small AUD$70.00 each.
Medium AUD$80.50 each.
Large AUD$101.50 each.
# Post fees apply for a mail order purchase.

THE CHINESE JING JA GOAT HAIR - EXTRA LARGE BRUSH
Our SPECIAL DEAL HERE is a "JING JA" large No.1 size goathair brush. Goats hair is the most liquid holding brush hair of all, as such it is used to cover large areas with a wash of colour. But it is used predominantly by Chinese Calligraphers to do Chinese Character painting - big ones.

BRUSH DETAILS
The Goat hair is 125 x 33mm or in inches 4.9" x 1.2".
The handle is lathe turned wood and black painted, with a silk loop for hanging on top.
You can buy this brush ON SPECIAL REDUCTION for just AUD$49.95 each.
As shown on our "Chinese Painting Beginners set" webpage. The following brushes are available singly or together as a set.
These represent a set of brushes that would set you up to do landscape or flower painting.

 Kwui medium - Fine line brush in the largest of 2x sizes This and the next 2x brushes (below) are made from wolf hair. This hair has similar characteristics to Sable and is best used for line type strokes. Of all the types of hair used by Chinese for brush making, wolf hair has about a medium tension/springiness to it. In this case - the Kwui brush is one of the very smallest, and is for any extra fine line work you wish to add to a paintings details. AUD$4.80 each.

Yip Gun - Floral Detail - in the medium of 3x sizes The next size up if compared in size to the Kwui series of brushes. The Floral Detail will work for any semi fine line work you need on a painting. i.e adding leaf veins to a wash painted leaf, stamens to flowers, etc. AUD$7.70each.

Dai San Sui - General purpose landscape brush, in the largest of 3x sizes. This brush is for all general painting work where control of a stroke is needed, but is not able to do extra fine work well, as its hair is to bulky and the tip would be to cumbersome. AUD$15.40 each.

Dai Bat Wan - White Cloud, in the largest of 3x sizes. A wash brush to cover areas of a painting with a colour shade or for a cloud/mist effect. The brush is built in 2 layers, and has squirrel hair inside, enveloped outside with goat hair. Unfortunately the goat hair tends to have no strength, and is floppy and uncontrollable - but is the best ink/fluid holding hair of any type. The firmer squirrel hair inside allows the goats hair to surround it and cling to it, thus giving the brush the best of two worlds in one brush - some control and some extra fluid holding ability. This structure of brush is used for Japanese Sumi-e and also as a Calligraphy writing brush as well as for washes. AUD$9.10 each.

HERE ARE PICTURES OF EACH OF THESE FAMILIES OF BRUSHES (3x SIZES EACH)

Bat Wan / White Cloud, Goat/Squirrel hair in 3x sizes:
Large AUD$9.10, Medium AUD$7.00, Small AUD$5.05

San Sui / General Landscape, Wolf hair, 3x sizes:
Large AUD$15.40, Medium AUD$12.60, Small AUD$11.20

Yip Gun / Floral Detail, Wolf hair, 3x sizes:
Large AUD$8.00, Medium AUD$7.70, Small AUD$7.00

Kwui / Fine line, Wolf hair, 2x sizes:
Medium AUD$4.80, Small AUD$4.30

A Top quality Calligraphy Brush set from Shao Zhi Yan, a top brush making factory in China.

The black laquer style box has 6x brushes with long Goat hair. The ferrule of Buffalo horn mounts the brushhair at the girth. A beautiful gift box set, or a marvelous brush set for anyone doing Chinese calligraphy.

There is only one set available and it sells for AUD$558.20

(Plus shipping fees, if purchased by mail order)

PURPLE BAMBOO - BRILLIANT TIP
Another Top quality Brush set from Shao Zhi Yan, a top brush making factory in China.

A set of 3 Goat hair brushes in sizes 1, 2 and 3. The smallest has 43mm long hair, with the largest at 50mm long. These brushes handle brilliantly as the name carved on the side states. The Goat hair is selected by master brush makers, and compiled in a special order to make the brushes handle so well. This set is in class of its own. Boxed in silk brocade.

There is only one set available and it sells for AUD$228.90

(Plus shipping fees, if purchased by mail order)

 

 

Another Top quality Calligraphy Brush set from Shao Zhi Yan, a top brush making factory in China.

The green brocade silk box has 5x brushes with a wide girth in Goat hair, each is mounted in a Buffalo horn ferrule. A beautiful gift box set, or a marvelous brush set for anyone doing Chinese calligraphy.

There is only one set available and it sells for AUD$326.80

(Plus shipping fees, if purchased by mail order)

A Goat - white hair LOOOONG brush, "Flying Crane in the Clouds"
A Horse - brown hair LOOOONG brush, "Sweet Success - like a Spring Wind"
Do Painting or Calligraphy while standing, use the brush on paper on the floor, or express your paint strokes from a metre away from the wall. Each brush will hold a lot of ink per dipping, so your brushstrokes will continue for a good while. The Goat hair is a soft hair brush & is better for broader non-sharp strokes The Horse hair allows finer sharper strokes and more split stroke lines

Just the bamboo handle only of these brushes is 500mm in length, with the whole length being 730mm.
Here are the brush hair measurements:
Goat hair is, Girth 20mm, length 140mm
Horse hair is, Girth 18mm, length 130mm

Each brushes hair is set in Horn ferrules and each has a silk loop hanger on the other end. With a beautifil knotted dark brown bamboo handle.. The brushes sell for AUD$70.00 each.

DESCRIPTION OF EASTERN PAINTING BRUSHES
The shape of nearly 100% of these brushes is round and pointed, they may be thicker at the base/girth and shorter or longer, but the basic shape is the same. The texture of the hair and flexibility determines the stroke result when put down on paper. This is how a brush gets its name - which describes its use or stroke. Often a series of sizes is made of a particular type of brush and these are named small, medium and large or have numbers – and normally - where the larger the number the smaller the size of brush. To gain a knowledge of the uses or strokes possible from the different hair types, a teacher or a good Chinese painting book will be needed, (see our Chinese Painting books page). The following pictures show popular brushes in all types of hair and are available at the shop. Please call, fax or email us to define further details

CLICK ANY BRUSH FOR A LARGE PICTURE & MORE DETAILS:
# On clicking a brush & seeing the zoom window open,
the brush details can be cut & paste into an email,
for any order or further query about these brushes.


SPECIAL HAIR BRUSHES
SPECIAL HAIR BRUSHES

CLICK ANY BRUSH FOR A LARGE PICTURE & MORE DETAILS:
# On clicking a brush & seeing the zoom window open,
the brush details can be cut & paste into an email,
for any order or further query about these brushes.

GOATS HAIR BRUSHES

GOATS HAIR BRUSHES

CLICK ANY BRUSH FOR A LARGE PICTURE & MORE DETAILS:
# On clicking a brush & seeing the zoom window open,
the brush details can be cut & paste into an email,
for any order or further query about these brushes.

EXTRA LARGE GOATS HAIR BRUSHES

EXTRA LARGE GOATS HAIR BRUSHES

CLICK ANY BRUSH FOR A LARGE PICTURE & MORE DETAILS:
# On clicking a brush & seeing the zoom window open,
the brush details can be cut & paste into an email,
for any order or further query about these brushes

WOLF HAIR BRUSHES

WOLF HAIR BRUSHES

SPECIAL BRUSHES USED FOR CHINESE SCROLL MOUNTING
Here is our Chinese/Japanese Mounting Smoothing brush range. These are used dry on the top layer of freshly stuck down paper, that backs a painting or scroll. The wide brush smooths the paper giving just the right pressure to flatten the glued paper onto its base sheet.
The basic 5x sizes, starting at No. 3 to No. 7 above are priced as follows;
3. Small smoothing brush (no handle) AUD$35.00 each.
4. Small smoothing brush (with handle) AUD$12.00 each.
5. Medium smoothing brush (with handle) AUD$25.00 each.
6. Large smoothing brush (with handle) AUD$35.00 each.
7. Extra Large smoothing brush (no handle) AUD$38.00 each.

Those small round brushes at the left side of the picture are for stubbing out bubbles in the glued area, between the 2x layers of paper. Or to flatten any small creases in the backing sheet, while the glue is wet. Prices as follows;
1. Large Stubbing brush AUD$21.00 each.
2. Small Stubbing brush AUD$15.00 each.
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Last update Nov 2011
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