https://www.scmp.com/rss/330400/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Winnie Chui is one of Hong Kong’s few remaining practitioners of an age-old craft: making calligraphy brushes with baby hair. These tokens of nativity, known in Chinese as taimaobi (胎毛笔), or “fetal brushes,” represent parents’ hopes that their children might become wise and filial. The locks are taken from an infant’s first haircut, usually before the baby turns 3. “Only the first growth of hair is used,” Chui says, “because that’s the only time when human hair tapers naturally at the tip.” The... https://www.scmp.com/culture/calligraphy-brushes-baby-hair/article/3000163?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/calligraphy-brushes-baby-hair/article/3000163?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:14:47 +0000