How Paintbrushes Are Made

This is how paintbrushes are made.
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[@HeyMel_B]

WAIT, WHAT?! Can i really get my paintbrush in shape again by using starch and water? How... How is that I'm finding this now, after year and year of spending money in new brushes.

[@quindixie6867]

Melanie Barrientos Me too. Defiantly will be trying this

[@monvia88]

Melanie Barrientos it's like a wheat paste. Just mix flour and hot water until you get a slightly runny thick paste

[@atriyakoller136]

it looks like the solution was heated or even boiled, it looked a lot like thick "kisel" (a Russian dessert made by combining water, starch, sugar, and berries (or fruits) or jam, boiling it and letting it cool, the more starch, the thicker it is, stuff that is sold in the shops is waaay too thin imo)

[@shanniemedrano6344]

for a very mishapen brush..such as one that has been upside down in a container for a long time, you can also wet it and wrap the hairs around and around with some thread. it will dry like that, bend it into the shape you want while its wet. good luck!

[@-sam-4807]

You can also rub your brushes on a bar of soap, shape it with your fingers, let it dry, and then carefully wash it to reshape the hairs

[@eyrist1369]

cue every artist ever revelling in the newfound cheat to reshape their brushes

[@ewstap9040]

True

[@kandy8588]

I actually thought that most artists knew at least one way to reshape, such as the soap or toothpaste and clay method,

[@whisphersofmymind]

yeah

[@samanthatey1681]

I use a bar of soap. Anyone else?

[@harrysdifferentbeans6164]

Nail polish remover

[@Mina-zg7oi]

NO WONDER SOME BRUSHES ARE EXPENSIVE

[@gebuniverse6905]

Y r all the letters capitalized?

[@Mina-zg7oi]

+Geb Universe lol

[@babysp1c3666]

Mina Myoui Seems pretty simple and easy to me

[@abril5251]

Once!!

[@Mina-zg7oi]

Xoloveabril Hiii

[@jennifer9084]

Now I need to go and get some starch. I'll be right back.....

[@thebucket5493]

Jennifer A exactly😂

[@Dsyster24]

Does it work?

[@balasubramanian4787]

Jennifer A rrr

[@t-.-t.]

Yes! Me too.. got a lot of brushes to reshape🤣

[@chia1312]

What the heck.. I'm actually looking for starch this whole day (legit reason - for cooking) and of all the videos and comments I stumbled upon.... It had to be you.

[@harty5485]

“Attaching it permanently” the biggest lie I have ever been told

[@creativityfunwithlaibalaiba]

Mine to sent breka even the Cheapest one

[@_zoeyshaa_]

Agreed lmao

[@Ryan-pg1tw]

maybe you should be more respectful

[@harty5485]

@@Ryan-pg1tw it was a joke based on my personal experience with paintbrushes, calm down 😂

[@akamishuki]

Lolols ikr I was doubting tat part too 🤣

[@fathima-nl8vk]

imma go find some starch , water and a towel. BRB!😂

[@janabroflovski2572]

Fathima Karippoor what is BRB?

[@fathima-nl8vk]

Jana Martín be right back 😀

[@robin23200]

Fathima Karippoor did you really have to use the laughing emoji, smh.

[@fathima-nl8vk]

Renounce to say that I'm just kidding

[@whisphersofmymind]

@@fathima-nl8vk 😂😂😂

[@americanexpress224]

2:39 WTF NO WONDER MY PAINT BRUSHES DETACH CAUSE SHE PUTS A TINY BIT OF GLUE

[@add3mh3]

Watcj more😣

[@lucasmucas9072]

@@add3mh3 *watch

[@quinnyquinn4555]

HyperKiwi um no it would isn’t

[@lucasmucas9072]

@@quinnyquinn4555 *would not

[@quinnyquinn4555]

Luke Moretz oops yeah sorry, I’m on mobile so it prob was autocorrect bc I misspelled something and assumed it was isn’t

[@jacejace102]

AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF WASTING MONEY BY BUYING PAINTBRUSHES, YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT I CAN FIX IT WITH STARCH AND WATER? I--

[@divishasingh4078]

am stupid. Come on! We were all gonna say that😅

[@msDanielp369]

dies instantly

[@uriituw]

Why are you shouting?

[@SharonDraws]

@@uriituw maybe because he's angry...

[@krisandrapereira2128]

I Came Here Because I HATE Painting With The Brushes, I Wanted To See How These People Make The Brush So Uneven. Then I Watched Till The End And I Was Satisfied, Must Go Paint Now...

[@deadaccount2293]

Why Is Every Word Capitalized In Your Comment?

[@pepperpotato5562]

Krisandra Pereira hi there :D

[@krisandrapereira2128]

PepperPotato Hey! We Meet Again!

[@chelsearosepimentel4536]

Dude youre here too?!

[@pepperpotato5562]

Krisandra Pereira :D

[@ofgraham]

They use paint to make paint brushes lol

[@shrikiduniya554]

lol

[@justalice1986]

Yakari

[@mickeymousessrabbit6265]

how ironic

[@imenmazhoud3848]

😂😂

[@oak2847]

So what?

[@androidking5444]

Even the making of this painting brush is ART itself

[@user-ef7mt4ge8i]

I'm pretty sure every artist/painter clicked into this expecting for a solution to their splayed brush . and right at 1:29 they pause to get some starch

[@fizzydizzystudios4768]

Wow! Making paintbrushes are an art in of themselves! That's really cool!

[@anismohdarif3885]

2:26 Welcome to Ollivanders! Pick your wand!

[@isopodch.4599]

Anis Mohd Arif A+ comment

[@ats6880]

Slow clap 👏is earned

[@phoebebaisch9582]

The wand chooses the wizard!!

[@missmarreynolds]

Phoebe Baisch TRUE c:

[@alanadi_angelo367]

Anis Mohd Arif ikr!

[@luckiducki7039]

At least this is better than watching Jake Paul's sh*tty songs

[@clowdsatdusk9949]

Troo

[@danielrasheedi]

Yahh

[@luckiducki7039]

Alex Marte it dosent matter how much he has the songs are still pure aids and I can feel an apocalypse coming....

[@viengsamphet]

David Dominguez yea

[@solba1506]

biTCH i agree even tho this has nothing to do with it.

[@foodscience007]

it takes almost 3 days to make a simple paintbrush ?? _-_

[@v_06_baradkaratharvavinaya70]

HIMASHI an expensive, handmade, fine art one. Not our regular ones

[@foodscience007]

oh right, that makes sense :)

[@imjemmck]

No wonder they cost so much.

[@preetiminhas8052]

The simple ones don't have the indentation to keep the brush end in place, they normally only have glue, and when you use it to much they wiggle off...sadly

[@thatoneguy9582]

HIMASHI s i m p l e

[@anjayl]

My favorite step is when they beat the devil out of it. But I don't understand how the hair stay in place. Seems like if you pulled the hair, they would come out

[@marky6525]

*Magic.*

[@recoveringsoul755]

Crimp

[@ShanHoshi]

how did they make the hair i wanna see

[@emmanuellehmann9836]

it depend sometimes its out of horse hair bot its mostly plastic.

[@raahimas2776]

These were sable. he said at the start

[@lindaharde6859]

.darinダリン desu they probably got horse hair or something like that

[@mharkianescaro3920]

Pubic hair I guess

[@winwinslines5335]

Armyy

[@somethingstupidlol7389]

I remember this voice. How It’s Made. Definitely. 100%. My childhood...

[@hannasetiawan160]

I should be studying right now for tomorrow exam, and i still watch a three minutes video on how are brush made...

[@kitty..8987]

Hehe

[@rohitdey6289]

How was your exam?

[@hannasetiawan160]

@@rohitdey6289 don't remember what happened but I passed

[@rohitdey6289]

@@hannasetiawan160 cool!

[@beeswax8011]

Paint brush making videos are longer than Candy making videos😑WHY😂

[@v1gilantics]

Because making paintbrushes takes longer.....?

[@bethmarks3890]

Yep

[@whatuser9802]

sigh no people give a sh*t about candy😥

[@audibombination]

Does it really matter???? ._.

[@whisphersofmymind]

😂😂😂

[@farzanask1088]

10 year old me : paint brushes are made of horse's hair LMAO how dumb I was when I was a kid 😅 😆

[@gulnihal54]

I mean you were not wrong there are brushes made of horse hair actually

[@owee]

Yes, for those who didn't know you can get a brush back together by using starch and water. If you do nails (like myself) you'll notice there is this a White substance on a New Acrylic brush before you do it. And to remove this I dip my brush into the Monomer.

[@mattpk1609]

Was wondering how paintbrushes are made yesterday while painting Warhammer minis. Glad i watched this

[@AswathWealthyInfo]

It looks like 'wand' manufacturing for a magical world ✨✨✨

[@miyaki6957]

So thats why theirs glue under the brush! When I broke it....

[@jay-vw7yq]

That looks like a great job to do. I've always been playing with brushes like that 😂

[@zainbaker3589]

These are things we just take for granted and don't consider the work behind them.😔

[@caelann2593]

Welcome to an episode of why is this on my reccomended

[@recoveringsoul755]

I was just wondering last night

[@joebraganza9167]

Here before 1 mil views And doesn't it sound like it is from how it's made ?

[@ryanjames3987]

Joe Braganza it is

[@i_cant_think_of_a_name8345]

I doubt this will have 1m views

[@bryannafarrell1599]

It is see the logo at the top of the screen 😭😂

[@Fw.jayy101]

It shows the ending Credits 💀💀 of "How it's Made"

[@foxydoggo4237]

I watched this in my library with my class XD

[@unnatik2444]

It's weirdly satisfying to watch her give a massage to the brush after dipping it in starch solution

[@artwithtrishna7214]

Every artist would watch this.I didn’t know how water colour brushes are made.But today I saw it.....Great work...👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@cellinakwon5246]

Starch as in corn starch?

[@iulianita6876]

Cellina Kwon ye

[@cellinakwon5246]

mind yo own business thankssssss

[@zeldasill109]

Cellina Kwon no starch as in pizza starch

[@_.-._.-.]

The heads of paintbrushes fall off all the time...

[@senimurni7081]

Everyone is talking about the starch. But not about my food being used as a brush enforcer

[@juliettebaysinger46]

Crimping it doesn’t permanently attack it, Iv had plenty of make up brushes that have broken, even when they where “ crimped”

[@aakanshagupta1766]

That much effort for one brush😥😥

[@doctronfour9060]

Anshi Gupta I know eh, thought paintbrushes would be mass produced. Didn't expect it to be such a tedious process. TIL

[@t-.-t.]

These are kolinskey brushes. They are very expensive and need to be handmade. The local craftshop brushes are mass produced tho

[@alaaalfaraon9368]

Paint brushes can range from $1 to a couple of hundred dollars depending on the hairs used and the process in which it's made

[@oak2847]

Handmade.

[@kylecastillo6608]

Literally HAIRS!!? LMAO!

[@ryanbecryin6201]

Tomoiru Ogawa wut u think it was

[@ereynjemai]

Me being bored in quarantine and searching random things such as this video and commenting the same thing to the other videos

[@pannalina9750]

Omg guys doesnt it feel releaxing and satisfying when u see them dipping it in black paint at the end.🙂 2:17

[@g.hmusicc]

Finnaly a "kinda good" video!! AND a "more than 1 minute video...

[@rosy2621]

BUT WAIT! What do the artists do with the paint brush when its in the hands of them?! *Im dirty minded*

[@patrickswalenski8273]

Here i am, at 3 am watching how paintbrushes are made

[@dorenmnelosp8656]

This is how GOOD quality paint brushes are made not all of them

[@Umm321]

Omg how did I end up on this side of KZbin........

[@dolphine373]

Did you really just take a video from how it's made?

[@what-gm4is]

They did say go watch how it's made in the description, and at the end of the video 😂

[@maishan9073]

I never ever realized that it's "hair" on the end to the paint brush..!! I never thought about that!

[@joanasantillana6199]

SO THATS WHY WHEN U BUY A NEW BRUSH THERES SOMETHING HARD WHEN HOLDING THE BRUSH ITS THE *CORNSTARCH*

[@alohajenna910]

I hate painting Edit: Wow I think I love painting already :')

[@sophie._.16]

🖌

[@loves_gone4]

🖊

[@APERSON-ib7jv]

"Attaching it permanently" WAIT SO HOW COME THE BRUSH PART FELL OFF ONE OF MY PAINT BRUSHES!?!?

[@brooklyngilmore3322]

Idk why but the music and his voice is so satisfying

[@teaivazidic4041]

This is not allright..this painbrushes made sam of animals hair..omg.omg..why ppl testeted or kill animals for a cosmetics product?😣😣😑😑😐😐

[@adi-qf2wb]

Tea Zidic lol paintbrushes are a byproduct nothing is killed specifically for this purpose. Now go hug an ant or something

[@goldenwolfo1194]

lol honestly if you get mad at paint brushes for that then don’t go into orchestra the bows are ether horse hair or some sort of fake hair

[@ethiopia2838]

Tea Zidic No they trim some hair of Duh!

[@erykam6729]

I don’t think they kill them. Just shave the hair

[@parodyLUV4]

They either trim or cut the hair from the animal or are sent hair after the animal either has died or was killed it's not like the companies are actually killing the animals and if you have an issue with it there's paint brushes made without animal hair...

[@chickennugget2241]

The silver dipping part is so satisfying

[@reyajfn2055]

The coating parts are oddly satisfying

[@jlou3929]

THE MAKKING OF PAINT BRUSHES SATIFIES ME HEHHEHE

[@_marimopeace]

1:14 for future reference because damn i save my watercolor brushes after all

[@nimcoabdul1278]

I always hated how paint brushes were so expensive but now I respect the process og making them

[@vaishnaviaithagoni9932]

Patience is indeed needed

[@LaLa-jh7qq]

Wow i didn't want to watch how things are made, but quarantine made me do watch it.

[@derpigante6518]

1. You can straighten your paint brush again 2. You have Ooblek lol

[@samreetkaur2168]

Never too late to have a perfect brush

[@calthecat6527]

“It’s a bit too much money to buy molds to hold up the brushes....” Workers: RICE.

[@melissaa.-a.5299]

As a girl who loves art, this truly satisfies me.

[@mousoominandi2923]

I have loads of homework to complete but here I am,watching that how brushes are made😁😂

[@zurainiali8591]

I seriously got crushed when I found out that they shape the brush with starch and water and I’ve been bringing an ugly brush for 5 years now just cause when I get new ones I think they are too pretty to use....

[@totallynotelle526]

*_when i was little i thought people cut their hair and made it and thought "poor person now they have a small bunch of hair that's a inch shorter than the others"_*

[@arby133]

friend: so, what's your job. this lady: professional brush head maker

[@dancouldbeonfirebutheschoo2817]

*I NEED THIS SPECIFIC BLACK PAINT IN MY LIFE*

[@dianeknut6587]

They really be painstakingly taking three days to paint the handle and my anxious ass is just gonna chip all this shit off huh

[@aIchemizedlemniscate]

now put it on a competition show and make them an enby

[@cosmosart-brushandpaint4650]

Never knew making a brush was this hard. Thanks

[@arteaplum7189]

I understand why they're more expensive than I would have expected now

[@thomasedison9351]

So much love is added in one paint brush

[@BananinisPienas]

interesting.... why am i watching this at 4am?

[@salami_artz515]

Now I see why paintbrushes are so expensive.. THEY TAKE SO MUCH WORK TO MAKE

[@jonah3264]

This feels like a very relaxing job

[@deactified]

it's paintbrush's friends! Painbrush : WHAT

[@ninacajnar6154]

People dont try this thing with starch. I tried it and it works like this: •Starch on the brush dries •Then the powder sticks the hairs together and makes them hard as rock • first time the brush gets wet ,the starch rinses off •the brush lose its shape again THANK YOU FOR READING THIS🖌🌈

[@HawkinaBox]

THAT'S SO COOL!!! I hold a new found respect for paint brushes.

[@brrmbrrmm]

why is this so oddly satisfying

[@juliarobinson3350]

This is the 21st century version of the original show, “How it’s made”

[@yuh3931]

attaching the handle permanently me: *buys super expensive brushes and the handle falls off when I touch it*

[@Kettie5]

I have mad respect for all these brush hair makerw

[@yusrahasan2488]

I am definitely going to try the starch and water technique for my misshapen brushes

[@tofucube7703]

The winsor and newton one was more satisfying to watch but this was a bit more informative

[@tippy651]

I remember being told as a kid to not wash my brushes in hot water because it will melt the glue holding the bristles in. I knew there was a reason I didn't listen to them lol.

[@yueluluu6704]

2:10 why is that so satisfying

[@tylerhale5837]

Every artist who just watched this video: excuse me while I go buy some starch

[@animerocks091]

I guess this explains why my brushes cost so much! Maybe using starch can help me fix some of the stray hairs

[@bitchchan4959]

That is why I love painting

[@gsjdndnndns1818]

Let me sleep Insider it's been months I am stuck in this loop

[@saikripa7717]

Really do they really make a large amount of brushes without the help of many machines!!

[@serhanbeldan6495]

Some people lick the hairs into its shape

[@madrose2614]

Did INSIDER finale post a video that seeks my education of how my darling art supplies is made?

[@bryanterry1111]

Aw I thought there was gonna be a crazy fast machine that spit them out with some fun music

[@cheesebessetti9287]

This made me really tired and want a nap for some reason

[@Magicbaby1231]

Where can I get a job doing this? Looks so satisfying

[@fabiofdez]

Who knew this was the video that was gonna show me how to get my bristles back to shape...

[@p0ssumkingd0m]

Lmao "attaching it permanently" MY ASS