#calligraphy
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A Brush Pouch Copied From a 2,000-Year-Old Tomb
The travel-pouch brush's design comes from an actual Qin-dynasty burial find — three brushes, bamboo-handled, kept in a hollowed travel case. Xu Huarong rebuilt the idea, five drafts deep, in pure rabbit hair.
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A Brush That Took Two Years
Xu Huarong is China's only recognized intangible-heritage transmitter for chicken-wolf-hair brushes, a technique tracing back to Su Dongpo's exile. This one took two years to finish.