Primitive Handmade Horsehair Drafting Brush hinged and one for details on

and one for details on top)

It's stuffed with batting or similar rather than beads or something heavy

A great little icon of a pre-plastic era

I am not quite sure what purpose it might have had other than to serve as a decorative souvenir

And then those great trees and islands in the background

Primitive Handmade Horsehair Drafting Brush hinged and one for details onI've had told this wonderful old handmade brush with long, snake like handle is a drafting brush, used for sweeping eraser crumbs off of blueprints, and indeed it would be useful for that though also be good for cobweb sweeping in high places! I just love how primitive and sculptural an object is, with those great wire stitches holding the bristles in place. This one has a hole near the end, making it all the easier to hang from the wall to admire! 24