paintbrush challenge
The noise is head-splittingly loud but she doesn’t fl inch. Next, I take the hair out of my
goblet, holding on tight to retain the rounded tip, before lightly teasing the hairs to try to get the strongest ones into the centre of the bunch. Feeding the hair into the ferrule (the metal part of a brush) is a battle in itself, but Rosemary does it in a nanosecond with a twist and a fl ourish. The trick is then to tap the brush down lightly, aiming to push the hairs up to form a pointed tip.
ABOVE Rosemary’s work bench laid out with tools BELOW Martha gets an expert lesson in mop brush making
It’s as diffi cult as it sounds, requiring
full concentration and masses of patience. As I struggle oafi shly to fi t in even half the hairs to the ferrule, I realise that Rosemary is not impressed – she has teased out a perfect point, while mine is lopsided and there are lots of stray hairs. It looks terrible. Rosemary shakes her head. Andy,
the photographer stifl es his laughter. She kindly says we can pretend I
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MY BRUSH IS LOPSIDED AND THERE
ARE STRAY HAIRS. IT LOOKS TERRIBLE. ROSEMARY SHAKES HER HEAD
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