I saw many pictures of horse hair brushes - The question was - where to get the horse hair? and what's better, mane or tail - that is if I could get any at all. Certainly when I walked into a stable cold, where I knew no one, you'd have thought I was asking them to shave the horse bald for me. Luckily the wife has all kinds of friends and two stepped up. This is Bruno:
Loyal companion to Lucille who is a PGNJ member and a past member of Icehouse Studio, where the wife does her pottery work. We lucked into good timing for his summer hair cut and Lucille provided me with mane hair, where she trims him so his harness won't tangle, as well as tail... which I suspect has nothing to do with care of the horse, Lucille was just really nice and we did bring carrots with which to bribe Bruno. Although, truth be told we'd have fed him the carrots just to keep him close enough to touch. He was a wonderful and gentle creature - a mustang who was retired from the rodeo. How about that?!?!
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| Much longer handles to handle the must longer bristles. |
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| One of my wife's friends sent a video of a potter making huge splashy glaze patterns on his platters using a particularly long bristled brush and we both hope to see someone work the same magic with these brushes. |
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| These brushes are from the tail hair - courser and creates a brush with less flexibility - better control - an interesting change from other fur. |
Her second friend Cheri has a place in Kentucky called Darling 888 Ranch and when she got home from a visit realized she hadn't trimmed a horse like she said she'd try to do - she actually called the folks down there and had them mail a pony tail of horse tail to me. I'm looking forward to getting the curl straightened out and the brush made.
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