Rooiboswilg is one of our indigenous trees from the Combretum family, it is cousin to the hardekool, very much the same in density and hardness, but it has more flow and a wider variation of colour in the wood, the grain is also more straight with longer curves, and the combination of hardwood/softwood in this chunk of wood shows this very well. The blue resin has a bit of glitter in it, and we fitted the handle with a super soft 24 mm synthetic Cashmere knot.
The brush weighs 105 grams and stands 131 mm high, the knot lofts at 58 mm and it measures 40 mm wide on the base.