Description

NOTE:  This listing is for the brush handle only.  If you would like a knot set into your handle, please select a knot from the Premium, Standard or Synthetic selections in the Knots category listing and I will gladly set it for you.

The handle is shown with a 26mm knot for presentation purposes.

This brush features a handcrafted handle by Robert Quinn from Black resin and Blue Lapis. This opaque, deep blue gemstone has a grand past. It was among the first gemstones to be worked on and worn as jewelry. At excavations in the ancient centers of culture around the Mediterranean, archaeologists have again and again found among the grave furnishings decorative chains and figures made of Lapis – clear indications that the deep blue stone was already popular thousands of years ago among the people of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome. It is said that the legendary city of Ur on the Euphrates plied a keen Lapis trade as long ago as the fourth millennium B.C., the material coming to the land of the two great rivers from the famous deposits in Afghanistan. In other cultures, Lapis was regarded as a holy stone. Particularly in the Middle East, it was thought to have magical powers.

Handle – 70mm