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Baby’s
hair is warmed with a pan. |
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| Baby’s hair and the ash in the pan from the warming process are put on
a hot plate with weights on top. After a short while , the hair has straightened. |
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| The ash produced from the warming process is rubbed gently across baby’s hair (using a soft clean dry cloth) many times, until all oil has been removed. Only then can we proceed to produce the “Hokubi” |
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| The root end of the baby’s hair is carefully trimmed to form the shape
of the “Hokubi”. |
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| If the Baby’s hair is of different lengths, it is put through a very specialised
process, whereby it is extended, mixed and gathered together many times.
This process produces hair which is thick and long enough for the manufacture
of an “Aka-Chan Fude” of superb quality and beauty. |
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| By burning the root of the hair, crumbling is prevented, it also flattens
the brush handle ends of the “Hokubi” end of the hair. This process also
aids the fitting of the “Hokubi” into the axis of the Brush. |
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| Each “Hokubi” is individual in size, this is because of the differing thickness
and volume of each individual baby’s hair. Therefore, the hole in the axis
of the brush must be individually whittled, using the sense of eye and
touch of the finest craftsmen to ascertain the correct size. Only then
can the “Hokubi” be inserted into the axis. |
