The fine art of brush making since 1898!

Our traditional brush manufacture was established in 1898 in Bechhofen, a small city in Bavaria, Germany.

The product range contains a wide range of handmade artist brushes for all painting techniques.

Feurer & Sohn GmbH
kolibri® / Artists Brushes
91596 Burk / Germany
phone United States (727) 697 0378  
phone Germany (+49) 9822 7433  
info@kolibri-brushes.com

About Hair Brush

The production of fine hair brushes in Germany can be traced to the 18th Traced back centuries. In that time, Germany already produced fine hair brush, in the vicinity of Burk. Back then as now, were animal hairs that came from Europe and Asia, used.

The following is a brief list of the usual fine hair, hair brushes are processed to manufacture.

 

Red sable hair: - Back to product line

They come from the tail of the Siberian Kolinsky sable. The hair is the strongest and finest Besteckungsmaterial and the quality of any other hair reached. The very flexible with his fluffy hair-like, shiny peaks is to produce the best artists' brushes used mainly.

 

Red sable imitation (Sabeline): - Back to product line

Sable-white imitation is selected and made ​​of ox hair coloring process is replaced by a marten-like appearance. be exclusively used the best hair with the finest lace.

 

Ox hair: - Back to product line

Ox hair are fine and elastic with good tips. You will be writing to all painters brush, and flat-Ölmal Lackierpinseln processed before

 

Fitch hair: - Back to product line

Fitch hair are from the Russian polecat. They have a grayish color and are very short. Due to their subtlety and flexibility, they are similar to the Sable. They are used for artists' brushes as Ölmal, porcelain and Aquarellmalpinsel. Sable hair belonging to the genus of fish hair (from the English word "Fitch" - ILTIS).

 

Squirrel: - Back to product line

Squirrel tails come from the different squirrels.

a) Casan-squirrel hair are known as the best. They come from Casan squirrels from Eastern Russia and are particularly suitable for painting on flat surfaces in the porcelain and Glasmalerie.

b) TALUTKY-squirrel hair are from Talutky squirrels and fall in longer lengths. They are equal in quality to the Casa hair and are mainly used for writing brushes and used tractors.

c) CANADE-squirrel hair are from the Canadian squirrels. The hairs are generally short and yellow-black color. It has very fine tips and is mainly used for producing Aquarellmalpinseln.

 

Pony hair: - Back to product line

Pony hair come mainly from China, Japan and fall in shades of bright red to dark brown. They are soft but not so fine and elastic, like squirrel. They are mainly used for producing Pastellmal and Schulmalpinseln and for some cosmetic brush.

 

Goat hair: - Back to product line

Goat hair is usually white or gray-brown to black and are very soft. They are processed primarily for cosmetic brush. are highly suitable for hair brushes, and this is not very liquid media are used to work for.

 

Pig bristles: - Back to product line

The best qualities come from the highlands along the Yangtze River in China. These bristles are very white and strong, often named after the city of Chungking. Good bristles have two essential characteristics:

a) a single - or multiple split tip, the so-called "flags"

b) a natural curvature

 

Synthetic hair: - Back to product line

Synthetic hair in sizes from 0.06 to 0.15 millimeters, the last few years with great success, increasing the production of many fine hair brush processed. It is an extremely fine tip in the sable almost equal to that. The particular characteristics of our synthetic hair are processed by the conical shape and well-structured surface, the function of the scales in natural hair and so does the uniform ink transfer guarantees. A professional production of the brush, hair brush synthetic remain very long shape. When working on rough canvas to take the life of these brushes with natural hair many times.

 

Synthetic filaments: - Zurück zur Produktlinie

Synthetic filaments with a diameter of 0.20 mm and up are nylon fibers with very good Elastitizät, a huge life and high resistance. They are all on brushes for acrylic painting processed before