Brush makers insert different types of material such as horsehair, vegetable fiber, nylon, and hog bristle into metal tubes called ferrules. They insert a wooden or aluminium plug into the bristles to form the brush head and attach the handle to the other side of the ferrule. They immerse the brush head in a protective substance to maintain their shape, finish and inspect the final product.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Preparing wood, straw, rattan, reeds, shells, or similar materials;
(b) Carving floral and artistic designs on wooden surfaces for decorative purposes;
(c) Painting freehand decorative designs on glass and pottery or porcelain ware;
(d) Carving, assembling, weaving, painting and decorating various articles for personal or household use such as salad bowls, serving-spoons, cutting-boards, trays, vases, jugs, baskets, straw hats, straw mats and similar objects;
(e) Carving, assembling, weaving and painting various decorative articles such as statues and other sculptures, chess pieces, jewellery and similar objects;
(f) Making wicker furniture from peeled and softened rattan, reeds, rushes, willow branches and similar materials;
(g) Making various kinds of baskets by interlacing osier, rattan, reeds, rushes or similar materials;
(h) Forming bottom of basket by interlacing strips of rattan, wood veneer or other material with framework of rods of material such as willow;
(i) Inserting rods around edge of bottom between woven sections of bottom and bending them upright to serve as framework for sides;
(j) Selecting and preparing brush materials, such as bristles, nylon, fibres and wire, and setting them in brush base;
(k) Selecting and preparing materials, such as broom corn, bass, whisker and fibre, and fastening them to broom handles.