He was brought up as a brushmaker in Edinburgh, but was disliked because of his appearance.

After periods of unemployment he settled in Kristiania in 1878, working as brushmaker.

Brushmakers: An introduction to the Brushmaker records.

Coate's was founded in 1875 by James Coate, which first started as a brushmaker company in London.

Wainwright was a brushmaker who murdered his mistress Harriet Lane in September 1874 and buried her body in a warehouse he owned.

His father, Samuel, was a brushmaker and Church of Scotland elder, while his mother, Isabella, was a housewife.

Thomas Girtin was born in Southwark, London, the son of a well-to-do brushmaker of Huguenot descent.

He also studied to be a bookkeeper and worked as a brushmaker for a company he had invested in, before eventually joining in the family business in 1852.

Baptised in Liverpool 23 September 1833 in the heart of the city's slums he was the son of a brushmaker, also called William Hodgkins.

He was born in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, the son of Thomas Wilson, a brushmaker, and Sarah Hathaway, a teacher.

He worked briefly as a brushmaker; his co-workers became his first audience, calling him "Berl der vertlzoger" - a man who always had a rhyme or a proverb.

Around 1864 his mother secured full-time employment as a dressmaker and immediately apprenticed both her sons, Montagu as a lithographic printer and Robert as a brushmaker.

In the Brushmaker Archive deposited in the Working Class Movement Library by GMB in 1995 are examples of this.

The brushmaker feeds the hair into a small brass cylinder, taps it to bring each strand into line, then lifts and twists it out of the cannon with a diaphragm.

There were many home grown suffragettes such as Mrs Savoy, a brushmaker, who was one of the Deputation of East End women to Downing Street in 1914.

When he was declared bankrupt the next year, he disinterred the body in September 1875 and attempted to rebury it with his brother Thomas and another brushmaker, Alfred Stokes.

The Brushmaker used the list of jobs vacant kept at the back of the bar - and this system probably only disappeared fully with establishment of the early Labour Exchanges in the 1900s.

A sixth-generation brushmaker; a seventh-generation textile specialist and a 10th-generation legal firm: when so many UK companies are going to the wall in the recession, how have these companies survived so long?

Karl Bücher was born in Kirberg, a small village in Hesse, as the son of a small, not very successful brushmaker and farmer; his grandfather Philipp was a cabinet-maker.

Brushmaker Cottam Brush, textile specialist Hainsworth and lawyers Gibson & Co share as a distinguishing characteristic that they are among the UK’s oldest family businesses, founded in 1858, 1783 and 1715 respectively.

The Chinese supply three grades of hair to domestic and foreign brush makers.

A brush maker adds pins to the back of his smallest brushes.

Michl was born in Domažlice, in a brush maker's family.

FredriksonStallard sent its technical drawings to a brush maker in Maine.

He discovered the brush maker through an English telephone book at the New York Public Library.

Josco Surface Finishing Products is a unique company among Australia's brush makers.

"All the brush makers who have been doing this for a long time have hanzashi," Mr. Takemori said.

Each brush is handmade and the brush makers code is stamped on the stainless steel ferrule.

ABS Brushes Artist's brush makers with one of the largest ranges of brushes.

At age sixteen, in 1846, he became an apprentice brush maker for Bernalds and Weeks in New York City.

John Bartlett had apprenticed under William Turner, father of J. M. W. Turner, the famous artist and was a hairdresser and brush maker.

In this version he calls himself a “drunken sot,” and he looks the part of the burly tradesman who has finally had a run of luck in his brush maker business.

P.& G. Seen Buying Brush Maker Procter & Gamble is expected to announce that it will buy Dr. Johns Products for an undisclosed amount.

He was an ivory and bone brush maker, and learning that my brothers had a younger brother to apprentice, he made overtures to them, to receive me into the house as an indoor apprentice.

FredriksonStallard commissioned a brush maker in rural England to make two one-of-a-kind versions of their designs: an oak brush with pig bristles and a cast-iron brush with steel bristles.

After introducing me to his star brush maker, Fermin Gil, a Mexican immigrant who "can just see" when a brush isn't right, Kirschner handed me a one-inch boar-bristle brush with a wooden handle.

Because badgers are a protected species in North America and most of Europe, virtually all commercial badger hair comes from mainland China, which supplies knots of hair in various grades to brush makers in both China and Europe.

Rakusin recalls that at an industry conference during the depths of the 2008 recession, a brush maker from Missouri told him about that state's innovative "workshare" program, through which the state paid some of the wages of skilled workers to tide companies over the slump and keep layoffs to a minimum.

Other Brushmakers in Wymondham Samuel Kidman, a foreman at S D Page & Sons for over 20 years, left the firm in 1919 to set up his own business as wood turner and brush maker at the Vimy Ridge Works off the Norwich Road.

“How it is possible that the values of our properties can go up by more than 100 percent during one of the biggest real estate declines in a generation?” asked Ms. Davis, 63, a sales representative for a Korean brush maker, during a public hearing last week on the issue at Queens Borough Hall.

KUMANO, JAPAN - In a small two-story workshop in the Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima, the master brush maker Tesshu Takemori leads a team of artisans in making some of the highest-quality makeup brushes in the world, and almost everything is done by hand.

High Definition Perfecting Powder, £62, by Chantecaille, www.chantecaille.com Brushes Polish-born designer Matylda Krzykowski has worked with Viennese brush maker Norbert Meier and horn maker Thomas Petz to create a contemporary collection of brushes and pans for Vienna Design Week 2012. '

The first permanent home of the yeshiva was financed by Rabbi Tzvi Zeev Fiszbejn (Fishbein in English), a wealthy brush maker originally from Miedzyrzec Podlaski in what is today Poland, who donated a thousand rubles in silver to Rabbi Salant for that purpose in 1863.