Bevelled
 
Flat brush, with oblique edge, i.e. with two exits.
 

Bent
 
Brush manufactured curvature. Wet, it "fait the pointe".
 

Boot
 
It is the whole of the hairs or fibres necessary to the manufacture of a series of brushes.
 

Capillarity
 
The capillarity depends on the intrinsic structure of each hair or each fibre. It is the capacity of absorption of the color.
The more the hair is tapered, the more its belly is accentuated, better is the capillary retention and the more regular the distribution of the color is.
 

Diameter
 
Taken on the ring with the short-nap cloth of the hair, on the round brushes.
 

Dish runs
 
Square brush (brushes in tables) exit about identical to the width.
 

Exit
 
Length of the hairs from their end to the ring.
 

Flower
 
The most frayed end and lightest of a hair. Part connects on the animal (on flower: brush assembled on its flower).
 

Head dig

 
Flower in bottom, of the boot or the tuft, and root in top. Because of its conicity, only one hair can separate the point from a round brush into two.
 

Nervousness
 
Physical capacity of a hair or a fibre to find its initial form more or less quickly. It is also w1hat one describes like "mémoire forme".
 

Pointed
 
End of a round brush.
 

Pincelière
 
Rather female because of need for sensitivity and precision of the fingers, this trade of craft industry of art requires up to 6 to 8 years of training before being able to control the manufacture of a brush in marten.
 

Root
 
The thickest end and heaviest of a hair. Is, on the animal, fixed at its skin (on root: brush assembled on root).
 

Ring
 
Part metal or plastic, cylindrical or conical enclosing the hairs.
 

Square
 
Flat brush whose width is equal to the exit.
 

Slice
 
Refers to the flat brushes seen of profile.
 

Thickness:

 
Ring with the short-nap cloth of the hair.
 

Tracer
 
Round brush at long or extra exit long. For nets, decorations, marine painting.
 

Traceur
 
Round brush at long or extra exit long. For nets, decorations, marine painting.
 

Tuft
 
It is the whole of the hairs or fibres assembled in brush before its insertion in the ring or the feather.
 

Used curvature
 
Brush manufactured so that it is formed as if it had been worn, thus avoiding its "rodage". .
 

Width

 
Catch on the ring with the short-nap cloth of the hair on the flat brushes.