Talk:Kolinsky sable-hair brush

Wrong illustration?
It seems to me that the brushes on the photo are nylon, not sable. Sable brushes have a much lighter, ochre-red color, and their bristles are thicker and noticeably tapering to a point. The depicted ones are dark reddish brown and consist of what appear to be fine fibers of even thickness. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.138.101.8 (talk) 08:21, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Contradiction
This article refers to the Kolinsky as "a species of sable". However, sable says that the sable is itself a species, either in the genus Martes or in the genus Mustela. It is possible that the Sable article is out of date (it was copied from the 1911 Britannica), but I think it more likely that the Kolinsky has been misclassified. Perhaps the author meant breed. I know enough zoology to point out the contradiction, but not to clear it up. ---Isaac R 01:15, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The material referenced above reads like it was copied and pasted from an advertising description from Madison Art Supplies which sells a line of Kolinsky brushes. I used Wikipedia to see what they had to say about Kolinsky while browsing for sable brushes on their site. (User: Tom Stevens May 31, 2005)

In fine art class, we always just call them sable hair brushes or "red sable" brushes, we never used the word Kolinsky. I noticed that the Kolinsky Sable has a different latin name on the external link than the wikipedia Sable. Goldenrowley 04:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Animals killed for my brush?
http://www.salongeek.com/nail-geek/22467-animals-killed-my-brush.html

apparently it's bred / killed for brushes :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.250.162.66 (talk) 09:49, 27 December 2008 (UTC)