Camel hair
Camel hair refers to the yellowish to reddish-brown fur of the camel native to Asia and Africa . It contains fundamentally different types of hair in its structure. The guard hair (top hair) is plain and coarse, while the down hair (lower hair) is curled and fine. The hair is neither sheared nor combed out, but instead falls out in clumps in spring. In the textile sector, the more valuable, easily and easily spinnable downy hair is used almost exclusively. Due to the rarity, softness and delicacy, the downy hair is often mixed with virgin wool .
Brushes that are declared by the manufacturer as camel hair are often just hair from horses and goats or a combination of these. Therefore, the absorbency, texture and other properties of so-called camel hair brushes vary greatly. Downy hair is basically useless for brushes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alois Kiessling, Max Matthes: Textile specialist dictionary . Fachverlag Schiele & Schoen, 1993, ISBN 978-3-7949-0546-1 , p. 199 ( preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ J.Merritt Matthews, Walter Anderau, HE Fierz-David: Camel hair . In: The textile fibers: their physical, chemical and microscopic properties . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-91077-7 , pp. 152 ( Preview in Google Book Search).