Primitive Handmade Whisk-type Brush with Wire Wrapped Wood Handle - Reserved for J.L Cinnabar Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Tennessee

Perhaps for holding ink

but also because I didn’t know exactly what it was and wanted to find out

freeing up their hands for sewing or trimming the leather

The opening measures 3/4 inches across

Primitive Handmade Whisk-type Brush with Wire Wrapped Wood Handle - Reserved for J.L Cinnabar Haystack Mountain School of CraftsThis 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