Primitive Handmade Whisk-type Brush with Wire Wrapped Wood Handle - Reserved for J.L decorative pitcher forms a hard

forms a hard

believed to date from the mid-20th century

The two largest have sliding tops

This woodblock print is the work of Takeo Takei (1894-1983)

Primitive Handmade Whisk-type Brush with Wire Wrapped Wood Handle - Reserved for J.L decorative pitcher forms a hardThis may be my favorite brush yet! I think the construction is amazing, with what I believe are horsehair bristles running both horizontally, along the handle and, and vertically, tethered by wire, and then bound again by stitched string. The lines, patterns, textures make this feel as much like sculpture as a functional object, and a really satisfying and substantial one. Just gorgeous. I believe there was once a metal end cap attached to the end of