Goat hair

Description

Fine, smooth hair from any of several species of goats, such as Capri hircus. Goat hair can be white, gray, or black. It has been used to make yarn and to make artist and cosmetic brushes. Goat hairs do not point well since they have a blunt tip (Pinney 1999). They are typically used in Oriental brushes and inexpensive school artist brushes (Pinney 1999).

Additional Information

° Zora Sweet Pinney, 'A Handle on the Terms used for Artists' Brushes: The Indispensable Tools' unpublished glossary, 1999.

Additional Images

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  Goat (genus Capra)

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  Goat hair

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  White Goat Hair Brushes

Authority

• Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: "goat" Encyclopædia Britannica. [Accessed October 16, 2003].

• Edward Reich, Carlton J. Siegler, Consumer Goods: How to Know and Use Them, American Book Company, New York City, 1937

• Zora Sweet Pinney, 'A Handle on the Terms used for Artists' Brushes', unpublished glossary, 1999

• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat (Accessed Nov. 2, 2005)