Easyou Hu Brush Chinese Brush for Calligraphy and Sumi Drawing Pure Horse Hair

The horse hair brush works well. It comes with a set of care instructions in Chinese saying that you should dissolve the glue on the brush by soaking in water, but without dissolving the glue at the base which sticks the hairs to the brush stick.

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This has now become my favorite brush! Excellent quality, no loose hairs, andjust the right amount of flexibility for a begginner in chinese calligraphy. I finally feel like I have more control over the brush and, so far, have been able to do every size I needed to, even some fairly small characters! I also used it to outline in ink a painting i’m Doing of my kitty-Leela. I’ll post photos of my. Copy work and painting when I return home, I just wanted to recommend this to beginning calligraphers-it makes a HUGE difference in the feel, accuracy and appearance of your practice! I. Just wish it came in other sizes!

I am disappointed by the way the small-size brush performed, it does not worth its price, actually, it did not performed as well as many lower priced brushes from other makers. I have been practicing Chinese calligraphy for 40+ years, when I need to paint to reproduce “Lang-ting-hsu” of the great calligraphy master Wang Xi Jer (Jing Dynasty), I need the brush hair to be very fine , very elastic, it takes real weasel hairs to do the job. This brush does not act like that as the maker claimed, as matter of fact, it’s craftsmanship is not fine enough to have hairs all line up and point to a sharp tip. I have to stop in the middle of a stroke to pull the few split hairs out, which ruin the smoothness of the stroke. I will not buy this product again.

The Easyou Hu brush sales information indicates that it is 100% horse hair. I could find no information on which part of the horse the hairs come from. Hair from different parts of an animal respond differently when wet. The writing that I could decipher on the brush handle indicates that is it a "mountain horse" whatever brush. Mountain horse brushes produce sharp points. This brush does. I like the flexibility/spring of the hairs. The brush produces sharp bamboo leaves and orchid leaves. It also works well with landscape. I have been successful in painting on MEGREZ raw Chinese paper which bleeds freely.