Hamburg Premier Professional Brushes feature: Brights, Filberts and Rounds. - Eric Armusik, Professional Artist It became a passion and a true labor of love to create the perfect brush, tirelessly testing multiple prototypes, tweaking and correcting each time. Hamburg Premier Professional Brushes carry the paint as well as a hog hairbrush but they have the subtlety of a soft brush when doing blending work. Most believed it not only matched but actually improved on natural Mongoose, providing better heft, absorbency, and shaping of the bristles. The balanced blend, just like Mongoose, provides the hair strength to paint with heavy bodied paint for more impasto applications. Buy Creative Mark Hamburg Premiere Professional Oil Painting Brushes - Flat #6 Oil Paint Brush - Handmade in Germany, Natural & Synthetic Hair Blend... I found that using them from my blending work on canvas was a completely different experience. Find many geat new & used options and get the best deals fo 2.5 ID Exhaust Gasket 2 Bolt, High Temp, Heavy Duty 120-06310-0002 (2.5 Inch ... at the best online pices at eBay Art Supples Adult Creative Mark Hamburg Premiere Professional Oil Painting Brushes Fan 24 Oil Paint Brush Handmade In Germany Natural Synthetic Hair Blend Long The Badger Paint Brush Hamburg Premier PRO Handmade Brush, Round Size #18 - UK The blend harmoniously matches the strength and resilience of Mongoose! Yet, unlike mongoose, cleans easier and more completely due in part to the synthetic filament content, easily coming back to shape for the next painting session. I found it to be quite a versatile brush for both. Badger hairs are traditionally used in more high-end shaving brushes. I initially used the brushes while painting on the smooth surface of the AlumaComp and later on a commissioned canvas piece I was painting. Brush bellies trap more thinned paint and glazes with this formulation, allowing for glazing while maintaining detailed precision. About Jerry's Artarama: Family-owned and operated since 1968, Jerry's specializes exclusively in fine art supplies and framing designed by artists for artists We enlisted the help of a world-class German brush maker after the ban was enacted to develop a brush with the superb qualities of natural mongoose. Hamburg Premier Handmade Brushes: Our Hamburg Premier were designed to replace the now banned mongoose hair brushes while maintaining strength and resiliency; The brush line is skillfully hand-crafted in Germany using an 8-step process; Each brush is made of a proprietary blend of synthetic filaments and natural hair varieties; The synthetic content in our oil paint brushes professional ensures they clean more easily and thoroughly, maintaining their condition and performance over time Note: The bristle is more of a coarse hair but on the smoother side of the spectrum.