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Xuanbi29 Set
Proudly Present the Three Rabbit Brand --- The brand in Xuan Brush!
Click to read about what other people say about these brushes!

Limited Quantity
Handle: Bamboo, Natural Ox Hanging Tip and Specially Made Ox Horn Brush Mouth
Left Most Brush is Xuanbi16 which most people already know, the medium 7 purple and 3 Goat
Second from Left: Xuan Zhou Pure Purple Sword Bristle
The three Brush from Right: Large, Medium, and Small Xuan Zhou Purple Bristle
These brushes has great strength because the Purple Bristle,
but the cloak of goat hair holds much more ink,
Best of both worlds!
As you can see and as we promised we are bring you
These much larger sizes of purple bristle brush, many people has sent us email about them and from the best brand!
The smallest size xuanbi16 is great for fine lines, as Lynda Barry put it:
"The smallest Three Rabbit brushes. (With the white hair) are REALLY NICE! The fine lines I can get! Incredible! I could draw all the hairs on a mouse's chin with this one!"
Hair: Carefully Chosen All Natural Hair Bristle of
Wild Rabbit Back Sword Hair as center  and Goat Hair as Surround Cloak.
Hair: This brush is made for special use, the heart is longer with wild Rabbit Sword hair, all around are shorter Goat hair as cloak.  This is a totally different brush from Xuanbi13, 14, and 15 which are softer as flower and general use brush!

Click image for larger view. The center tip shows the Purple rabbit hair (also called Sword hair, because the dark brown color of the britle is too close to the inkstone, it's difficult to see), the white britle is the Goat cloak. The brush has great strength when hold streight up from the special center bristle and the cloak provides the softness needed and also to hold much more ink for longer use without dipping for ink again. As you can see when dippied with ink, the shape of the brush looks just like the Lily Flower Bud!

70% Rabbit Sword Hair 30% Goat Hair as Cloak The Chinese on the right describes what Purple Bristle is: On the back of the Wild Rabbit in Southern Yangtze River mountains, there is a small patch of purple black hair which has great elasticity and strength, it's also called Sword Bristle. Purple Bristle is stronger, longer, and more flexible than regular rabbit hair. Because the patch is very very small, they are hard to get and very very expensive.

What history recorded is just a vivid picture of today's Sword Bristle Market: Since China opened it's door to the west again, sword hair price went up ten fold compare to a few years ago. Brand name makers like Three Rabbit sticks to using genuine material is becoming more and more difficult to stay profitable! One of  Tang dinasty's most famous poet Bai, Juyi in "Purple Bristle Hair Brush" wrote: "Purple Brush, As pointy as chisel and as sharp as knife, on southern mountain rocks, there is old wild rabbit, eat the bamboos, drink the spring waters, and grow a patch of purple hair, people from Xuan region use them to make brushes, out of thousands only one picked, .....Year over year when Xuan send the brushes to the emperor, purple bristle price is hiher than gold. ..." Today the old brush makers still use purple bristle and they are one of the best Xuan brushes!