What animal's hair is used in a Camel Hair Paint Brush? (it is NOT a Camel)?

Answer 1

pony, ox or goat
http://painting.about.com/od/artsupplies/a/BrushHairs.htm

Answer 2

The most commonly used hair for artists' brushes (and for painting houses) is bristle. Bristle is usually off-white in color (a sort of tan) and comes from hogs.

Hair from ox, camel, horses and goats (not sheep) are also commonly used.

One of the best brushes (and most expensive) made from hair is made from badger hair. Another very good and expensive brush (when it comes to holding a fine point) is made from the hair of a sable. Sable hair brushes range in color from red (the most common) to black (the most expensive). Kolinsky sable-hair brushes are the most widely used of the sable brushes by those artists who can afford them.

The sable, the the way, is a small creature that looks sort of like our own American otter and they live in the wilds across northern Asia, southern Russia and even in Japan.

It is illegal in the United States to mislabel a product. So, if your brush has words like 'pure sable' or 'natural' bristle stamped on the handle it means there is some poor animal somewhere shivering from the cold until it grows in another coat of hair.

Answer 3

Gummy, Yes, before the plastics industry started experimenting with products of all kinds, animal hair was all there was to use for brushes. Now there are all sorts of brushes made from synthetic bristles or combined with synthethic bristles. It gives us some cheaper choices, and some great qualty brushes to choose from.

Answer 4

Paintbrush bristles described by manufacturers as camel hair are actually derived either from the hairs of horses, squirrels, goats, sheep, bears, or some combination of these.

Answer 5

usually hair of foxes are used but nowadays synthetically made hair is used