Kolinsky Sable Brushes are definitely one of the finest 💪

 

It is not easy to render a Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Watercolor Brush. It can take almost a week and a half to produce the greatest size brush. For $2, you can select a cheap synthetic brush, but the Kolinsky Sable Watercolor Brush Series 7 costs around $300. Then why would you go for an expensive brush like that?

The Series 7 brush, originally created on request by Queen Victoria, was first manufactured in 1866 and was crafted to be the finest brush for watercolour painting possible. The capacity and craftsmanship that goes into producing each of these brushes has remained exactly the same since then. In 1946, a factory was founded in England, a fishing town with a rope-making history. The extreme amount of dexterity involved in the manufacture of these brushes stems from the fact that each person involved in the manufacture of the brush is trained for nine years. Each brush is made of Kolinsky Sable, a Siberian weasel whose hair is said to cost three times three times the cost of gold by price. The components play a major role in the cost. These weasels are hunted sustainably throughout Siberia and Manchuria, keeping with the rules laid down by the CITES guidelines.

Only the tail guard hair is picked. Kolinsky hairs are chosen for their strength, possession of a direction and enhanced surface area. The hair is washed and graded using a comb to remove the wool and carefully selected to boil and iron, eventually moving to make a brush. The lengths of the hairs taken are maintained as such. The workers would be able to separate 28 to 32 millimeter long hair with bare hands which requires a lot of skill and training. The brush making is done by very skilled nine workers who ensure the hairs are not twisted and blunt. Such defective hairs are discarded as every hair should be correct way up. It is possible to flip and reuse the discarded upside-down hairs. Each single hair is checked by hand. The smallest hair in the brush size is just 7 millimeters long. They travel to cannon when the hairs are ready. The package is bound together and gently twisted through. Individual hairs are inserted or removed until it is an exact match. The fine handles of birch wood imported from Italy are used after the process. The brush is glued into place as well as the brush heads are crimped on the handles afterwards. The method of crimping bends the metal to form and holds the handle tightly fastened to the brush. It needs to be labelled and checked until the paint brush is installed. On the handle, the scale and emblem of each brush is stamped in gold. Wet point checking guarantees that it performs exactly as expected and no loose or crooked hairs are present. Each brush is then gummed, a method that provides its final shape to the brush head and allows it to bounce back. The form of natural hair provides a large belly and a fine point for the brush.

Workers are the secret to the development of these brushes. From generation to generation, they maintain information. So they have suppliers with more than 49 years of experience employed as an apprentice under professional employees. As the only maker of the finest brushes the company still stands in pride with its finest quality brushes.