Monday, December 26, 2011

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Monday, December 5, 2011

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Villa Finale, Walter Mathis Homestead in San Antonio's King William Historic District

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Walter Mathis and now, the National Historic Trust, operate the site, Villa Finale in San Antonio's King William Historic District. For both local history and European artifacts, culture and art, the house is worth an afternoon tour.

With much oral history, facts are scarce.

The land that Villa Finale sits on was part of an original Spanish land grant to the Canary Island pioneers. In the not too distant history, the land was arable agrarian land for The Alamo. The Mission de Bexar. Yes, that Alamo.

The street that runs a few blocks east of Villa Finale is South Alamo. Runs in front of The Alamo, then follows a course that runs north-south, then east-west, then turns north-south again. The local joke is that cattle paths were used to choose streets. In this case, though, it was a waterway. The strange twists and turns of the local topography was dictated water sources, both natural and manmade.

Walter Mathis would trace part of his family lineage back to the Canary Island pioneers, proving that Villa Finale was destiny.

Standing in the front, looking at the house itself, the style is mid-1850 Italianate. The stylized front porch and tower were not added until the decade between 1895 and 1905.

The fun part, for me, I heard two different salaried curators claim the house was built in 1863 and 1873, and from the material, the accepted date was 1873, built by an Englishman named Norton. It was four square, just 4 rooms with a fireplace in each room, the typical quarried limestone with an unfinished surface. Mr. Norton had the front door shipped over from England, intact, a huge, carved door frame and door, with an imposing look. In a neighborhood that was largely - named King William - mercantile German class, he was the solo English holdout.

Norton lost the house to foreclosure, and it changed hands two more times, with the last family in the 1890s not leaving without a fight.

During that time, the back section of the house, a large kitchen and cellar, was added.

And we haven't even stepped inside yet.

There are two magnificent lions flanking the front walk. Walter Mathis was a Leo, but no, those were Victorian affectations, as were two ceremonial cannons. Mr. Mathis told tales about the early days when the neighborhood was rough, he would wake to find his cannons dragged across the yard, resting against the fence, as they were really too heavy to lift over.

Standing in the front yard, on the front walk, it is near-impossible to imagine that it was a seedy, or "bad," neighborhood. One of my clients, grew up maybe two miles south, as he was growing up, he was admonished to "Stay out of trouble, stay out of King William!" Looking a the stately trees and elegant mansions, it's hard to believe.

San Antonio has two primary industries, military and hospitality. At the end of World War One, the name for the district was changed, the King Wilhelm was none too popular. Returning troops were frequently billeted in the grand mansions, and Villa Finale itself was cut up into 8 apartments.

By the early 1960s, the neighborhood was in a sad state. In the ensuing interval, facts are sketchy, but Villa Finale had been a bawdy house, an illicit casino, a speakeasy, and a bordello. Walter Mathis denied the bordello to his dying day, but I heard it from a sweet little old lady in the neighborhood. She was instructed never to walk on that side of the street - her parents were afraid she would be pressed into service.

In the mid-sixties, Mr. Mathis could tell his then-current home was in the path of the city's first big freeway project, 281. He moved his nascent arts and architecture collection into storage and began searching for a new home. The 'Villa Finale' name was chosen because he wanted it to be his last home. It was.

He bought the place in 1967, starting renovations immediately, but he lived downtown in a hotel until partway through the project.

The "Fire & Casualty" insurance companies often did plats of the land. In one from 1894, Villa Finale had no porch and no tower, while both did show up in the 1905 plat. The porch and tower were added were added in the interim, but not enough data surveys to be more exact. The insurance companies did the plats so there was a map for ingress for the volunteer fire departments, in the event of fire.

At the front porch, the Norton entrance is marveled, then guests are instructed to pull on booties, durable yet protective slippers to help preserve what Walter Mathis built. The ceiling on the front porch is painted sky blue, and while it is patent folklore, the reason is to keep the mosquitoes away. Allegedly.

The entrance, the hall and entrance is marked by an overwhelming amount of art. It was his wish that everything be left where he placed it. There are over 12,000 objects in the collection. For the last few years of his life, a National Historic Trust person acted as a personal curator and carefully noted most of the tales associated with the various collections.

On December 8, 1941, Walter Mathis went over to Randolph Army Base and signed up as pilot. He went on to fly (purported) 96 mission over occupied Europe -WW2 - facts and myths.

One of the most famous collections is the Napoleon Collection. Entering the hallway, then leading to the first door on the right, careful not to touch anything, under the tower, there, is the beginning of the collection.

It's worth noting that Mr. Mathis wanted a home filled with music. To that end, in the middle of the front room, under that tower, there is a, forgive my bad German, "Bechstein-Weltz" reproducing piano.

"Like a player piano?"

Yes, and no. It is a German machine that looks like piano, has mechanical innards, and ran - runs - on an air compressor that Mr. Mathis located in the basement.

I've been told that the piano still runs, think of it as a steam-driven piano. The difference is that a great composer or pianist would sit down and record a performance on a roll of paper, and that was played. Cabinet, far left, stage left, over in the corner, had scroll and rolls of paper for the piano. Turn of the century iPod. The paper rolls were the mp3s.

Asked what single object he would grab, if the house was on fire, Walter Mathis was proudest of his "genuine" Napoleon death mask. "One of six," is the party line.

Apparently, there is a History Channel special about the cottage industry of Napoleon Death Masks. Worthy of some attention. Seems like there might be more than just a half-dozen. It's worth noting that this was one of the few originals, probably less than a dozen like it - provenance with museum curators is tricky business.

Napoleon was a favorite, and towards that end, Villa Finale is now part of the Franco-Bexar group, as there are more Napoleon memorabilia here than in most museums. As a military man, Walter Mathis admired Napoleon's tactics.

The cabinets, the table-tops, the furniture itself, most, if not all, Empire-Revival. French, from around 1840. The "Egyptian" flavor is woven into the art, after all, Napoleon did "conquer" Egypt and some of the Pan-Arab world.

Because I was being trained when the house was being restored, I got to see a few things off the wall, like a ceremonial sword and scabbard arrangement that hangs high, like an Xmas tree star, over one set of Napoleon lithographs.

"Sheer panic in the curator's eyes when she pulled that one down; it really is held together with twine."

The windows now have UV coating the prevent fading. New paint, and everything has been cleaned and replaced in its original pace, per the behest and bequest.

Most of the furniture in the front rooms has been recovered, by Mathis, with one exception, there's a green ottoman/footstool that is in the original material from the 1840s. Note the large mirror over the mantle. Next room, more Napoleon collections, mirror over the mantle, odd military objects, a collections of dog figurines, various tokens, souvenirs, and my favorite, a pair of ivory-carved triptychs, which unfold and show Napoleon's victories and his wife, which shows her greatest accomplishment, marrying Napoleon.

"I hope you find the humor there," I add.

Back into the hall, along one wall, there are two pictures from the "pasta" school of Italian art, one clearly shows a medieval St. Mark's Square, in Venice. I called it the "pasta" school because I could never remember the name of the group. In those two paintings, every, there seems to be hundreds, but every figure is busy doing something.

Split between the paintings is a "cranberry glass" fountain, looks like an hourglass, only, with San Antonio's hard water, it's now all crusted up. The site is waiting on a grant to get this piece preserved. It still has water in it, and supposedly worked until his death.

Turn around, big painting on the wall, "Lazarus and the Money Changers," bible story. The painting spent the better part of a year in Austin, getting conserved. Means an expert in Austin spent months cleaning the large image with a proverbial Q-tip and jeweler's loupe. Before it was restored, I can point to two images, a monkey and a cat, and neither were visible before the conservation.

There are six or seven bronze sculptures int he front hallway, too. Four of them are actual "Barrié," a well-known French "animalieé," excuse my bad French spelling, doing this from memory. From where I stand, I have two bronzes at my fingertips. The real Barrié, the horse looks like a real horse, while the one next to it, it looks like an idealized horse. Turn back around, flanking the fountain are two gold-looking candelabras with stags wrapped around the center column. More from Barrie. Unusual in that he did very few candelabras and even fewer wild animals, like the stags.

The route is a vague figure eight, now, back into the doorway that is opposite from front Napoleon parlors, it's the Library.

The wall is lined with books, and from eye-level on up, the books are fancy, frequently leather-bound, pretty editions of classics. Books that were picked for looks as much as content. However, from six feet, and under, the books are history, historical, and some auction-house catalogs. To this day, the estate still receives various catalogs from international art houses.

When the house was being renovated by the Historic Trust, instead of pulling all the books off the shelves, then boxing them up, carting them off, bringing them back and re-shelving them, the books were left in place. Less chance of damage.

The chandelier was rescued from the Mary Bonner estate, and the ceiling had to be reinforced to support that behemoth of a lighting fixture. I was there when the fixture was down, to be rewired and brought up to current code, and the electricians, it took three large men, to haul that chandelier back into place. Weighed over 300 pounds.

In one corner of the library, there's another series of Barrie sculptures, there's another set of lions flanking the fireplace, and in one corner, I ask, which saint is it?

San Antonio, TX? It's Saint Anthony. This is a meter-tall figure that rescued from a church in Mexico, and Mathis turned him into a lamp. Always the preservationist, the saint's figure is attached at the base but the lamp doesn't really touch the figure. Over the doorway, leading to the next room, the dining room, now, there is a collection of Eastern Orthodox saints, most with complete silver cladding. I can't tell, don't recall, if they are Russian Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, or Greek Orthodox. One of them. All look about the same, to me. The sliver cladding was to protect the icons from constant touching, part of that faith's belief.

The floor of the library has the most unique persian rug I've ever seen. While it's background motif is sky blue, the language across the top of the rug is Farsi (Persian), and the images depict Adam and Eve getting expelled from the garden of Eden.

Mr. Mathis was quite fond of religious art; however, he was not allied with any church, not after his Episcopal tore down a building that he wanted to save. Paved it for a church parking lot. He never went back.

The dining room has a several notable collections. There is a huge amount of silver, two upright wooden urns for place settings, as well as three separate chests, full. There's a stand-up display that has a number of cow-creamers. My name's Kramer, cow-Kramers, I like them. All silver.

On his mother's side, he was related to the Bell Family, the great silver dynasty in San Antonio. Up on one shelf in the dining room there's a favorite piece, it's a shell-shaped piece of silver with a tiny model of a sailing ship, at the pinnacle. It's a gravy boat.

The art hanging at one end of the dining table is 'Sybil and the Tarquin,' the last of the pagan roman emperors, and she was a seer.

I like to point out that I'm not known for my good tastes, and when I pass judgement, keep my tastes in mind. Frequently, I shouldn't be allowed to dress myself.

The centerpiece setting is mismatch of color and culture. It is burgundy cut-glass, inlaid with semi-precious gems, gilt gold and silver with camels and lions. The story is, this is the very centerpiece that rode through the Suez Canal, on its opening, with Queen Victoria, in her barge.

Finally, there's selection of painting along one wall, and they include a rare Julian Onerdonck from Williamson County. In his era and to this day, he is still widely regarded as a premier Texas Impressionist painter.

The mirror hanging in the dining room looks like the same frames as in the Napoleon Parlour and sitting rooms. The tale told, passed on to me in training, is that the mirrors were gifts. Mr. Mathis was marching through recently liberated France, and he happened upon a bombed out mansion, owned by the town's mayor. Mathis was digging around in his pickets, scraping together a few dollars, to pay for the mirrors, and the mayor begged Mathis to accept them as a gift for freeing their country from Fascist German oppression.

The mirrors showed up in Houston, a few years later, with freight due. Unclear on what it was, Mr. Mathis reluctantly accepted the bill, and he was overjoyed to find his treasures - the people of France remembered him. The last mirror was left un-re-silvered, possibly just for the telling of the tale.

Out the dining room door, into the hallway, again, peek around the corner at the base of the magnificent stairwell, and there's the Violano Virtuoso. This was from the old Pearl Brewery's bar, the Buckhorn Saloon, from 1883. By the sixties, this unusual piece had made its way to Walter Mathis's collection. I've seen it work, more than once. It has two player-violins, and a player piano, all in a single case. Plays a waltz. Either disturbing, musically, or amusing, from a gadget point of view. Wind up and listen to it play a waltz.

Up the stairs, in the stairwell itself, the downstairs is primarily European while the upstairs starts the Americas collections. The first is the art while climbing the stairs. It's from South America, a centuries old school, the combination of the Spanish masters and the local color shows up with the amount of gold gilt used, throughout. Some strange interpretations, too.

Upstairs...

Turn the corner and there's another piano, under a display - along the wall - of more South American santos as well as relics gathered in Mexico. Starting in 1910, much of the Catholic church's hold on the land was released during revolution, and the relics eventually found there way here. There was one intern, summer before the Villa Finale opened, all she did was polish the silver that on top of the upstairs piano.

From the hallway, it's a left into the Periwinkle Room. The color is available from Lowe's, just ask for 'Villa Finale Periwinkle.'

Among artworks and other items, there are two cases of note. Along one wall, there's a collection of over 300 stick-pins. Walter Mathis got his first stick-pin from his grandmother, and that started his life-long obsession with collections and preservation.

Walter Mathis, especially with his huge collection of religious artifacts, he wasn't a church-goer. He was until his downtown Episcopal Church tore down a historic structure, an old house, historic house, to make way for a parking lot. He resigned and never went to another church. Never looked back, as they say.

There's a huge assortment of watches and timepieces, but more interesting, to me, is the collection of shaving mugs. Started when he was fifteen, the mugs capture the essence of a time gone by. The mugs are displayed in a pair of custom-built cabinets that were designed to reflect the architecture of his manse. As ephemeral data points, the mugs are marketing from a day gone by, and the shaving mugs differ from, like, a coffee cup, since there is a little shelf for a bar of soap and the shaving brush.

One of the curators worked at a site in California, talked about the importance of the historical value of the shaving mugs.

It's a two-step into the Yellow Room. Artwork, a throne, stairs to the tower, and a set of columns, rescued from his home in Monte-Vista. There's an odd collection of Staffordshire figures, and one is more curious, looks like Ben Franklin but it's labeled, "Geo. Washington."

Staffordshire ceramics was likely produced by child labor.

Shaving stands, sewing kits, Walter Mathis bemoaned the fact that he was a Victorian, born a hundred years too late.

Tucked against one wall, there's a set piece that is identical to one in Maximilian's palace in Mexico City. Another guide posited the connection - downstairs, Napoleon - upstairs, his illegitimate son -

The master of the house, Walter Mathis, in an apparent humorous display, he had a gold cherub with its chubby little butt pointed towards the center of the room.

The valences, over the windows, when the restorer was working, she'd heard that the valences were from a plantation in Mississippi. Or near Houston, never got the straight story on that, but they were removed for the new paint, and it turns out, it was bit of a puzzle to put them back on, as they were different sizes.

The sketch up on the wall is an Edouard Leon study of a Mounet (?) - best part of that? It was a 'lady of substance,' and that caused quite the scandal. A 'lady of substance' wasn't supposed to pose for a common artist's works.

Back into the hall, and it's painter time. One of the most exquisite paintings is one of the Onerdonk's of Prickly Pear in Bloom.

There's another painting, at the bottom, and it's one of the few that was done while Onerdonk was in studying in New York, mentioned in his letters. There are the usual amazing bluebonnet paintings, too. What he was a famous for.

There's one painting, inscribed to Walter Mathis's mother, 'From a little friend, to a little friend, in a little friendly way.'

Passing around the corner is another bedroom, there's a wooden-press. Flower press? Probably a blanket press, since there's was a strong tie with Rockport, and the Rockport Quilt Guild.

The small bedroom has his parents' wedding bed. It came from St. Louis, down the Mississippi River, where it was loaded on another boat and delivered to Rockport. According to the myth, one or more of his brothers and/or sisters was born in that bed.

More interesting, though, is the array of the family tree, mother on the right side, father on the left, tracing back through the generations.

In the front room, visible from the bedroom, has an array of Victorian memorabilia, Bristol Glass, a peacock, beaded purses, antique calling cards and Victorian card clips. There is a large carved ivory 'china' boat, and an allegedly working Victrola, hand-crank type of record player.

During the great flood of 2007, this room suffered water damage. Like many men of similar vintage, Mr. Mathis insisted on doing his own maintenance, and that suffered towards the end. Hence the water damage.

Back in the hall, opposite from the piano, there's a large sideboard with a glass front. It's 'Century Glass,' souvenir glass from the St. Louis worlds fair, circa, 1904. Another grandmother gift. The collection was embellished when the McNay (museum) asked to display it. Walter collected some more, just to make sure the museum had an adequate presentation.

Around the corner is a bathroom - passing a small glass case with another selection of naughty clock faces, slightly 'PG' by modern standards, but risqué by pre-modern mores.

Step into Walter Mathis's bedroom. Although he lived downtown at a hotel, during his renovation, he eventually moved into this bedroom, over the kitchen. The wallpaper was vinyl, faux-linen, and it peeled off with that water damage. During the National Trust's restoration, a chance encounter yielded up some of the matching wallpaper.

Much of the artwork in his bedroom is from an engraver named 'Currier,' as in, 'Currier and Ives,' before there was an Ives. Much of the Currier art is from the Mexican-American War (1842 - marched as far as Mexico City).

Walters Mathis was proud of his Texas heritage.

Many of the quilts are Christmas themed, as Walter passed in December, it was his wish that the house be preserved just as he left it.

A four-thousand square foot mansion stuffed with art, the common assumption is that he inherited wealth. His family lost it all in the Great Depression, and Walter Mathis did this on his own. Never married, but he was engaged, at least twice, which might be part of it, but the larger part was he was one of the youngest members of the New York Stock Exchange, after the war, and as an investment banker, his biggest win was brokering the Pepsi-Frito Lay deal. Towards that end, his favorite drink was rum and Cherry Pepsi, while he never allowed coke products in the house.

Beyond the bedroom, there's sitting room, complete with a kitchenettes installed for him. Along one wall, there's a selection of Texan currency, bills from the Republic of Texas. I point out, that, in London, there's a small plaque, designating where the Texas Legate was, 1842-1845.

There are a number of Texas maps along one of the walls, one of which is a favorite as it shows the western border of the great state of Texas to be the Rio Grande, and that map includes the headwaters of the Rio Grande - all the way to Canada.

T. Gentilz was a surveyor, working for Henri Castro. As such, T. Gentilz would travel between Castroville and San Antonio, taking about three days to complete the journey. He would stop along the way and sketch, draw, paint local color. There are several completed painting, one that seems incomplete, one art historian insists it's the 'queen' of the San Antonio missions, San Jose.

There is another painting, part of the collection, but to an unlettered and untutored eye, the style and execution is so different, I'm inclined to believe it was a forgery or fake. One local art historian, who knew Walter, suggested that Walter knew it was a fake, but loudly insisted it wasn't. Oral tradition versus real provenance.

The door that leads to the back porch also leads to back stairs. Included in this flight is a short set of step that lead to some kind of cabinet, or sewing nook. Top of the flight of stairs, there is a collection of circus figures, probably porcelain, and another allegedly working phonograph, the Edison variety with a clearly visible hand-crank and wax cylinder for the recording.

Down the stairs, it's a narrow staircase, certainly not ADA-compliant, and potentially dangerous for the loose carpets, there is the most magnificent collection of paintings and prints.

The bulk of the collection, from what I've gathered, came from the purchase of the Mary Bonner Estate. What I was told, Mary Bonner went to Paris to study painting, and one teacher told her that she din't have the strength to be a painter so she should look at print-making instead.

Relying on her native San Antonio background, her prints of cowboys and similar Texas-themes became the toast of France.

It happens. They love Texans. You do know, Texas is bigger than France?

The Mary Bonner collection, alone it that back stairwell is enough to render the whole trip worthwhile.

There are several sketches of the missions, again, later Mary Bonner works.

The stairs unwind into the kitchen. This was a working kitchen. Rumor has it, the refrigerator still has frozen foods, left over from before the Historic Trust took over.

There's all kinds of flatware, cookware, Wedge Wood, and China. The story is, one plate was used for serving until Walter Mathis found out the value of the platter. Now on the wall.

The woodwork itself was rescued and repurposed from the Sullivan House, another casualty in San Antonio's growth.

Because it was a real, working kitchen, the spices that were "pretty," and had "eye-appeal," those spices were displayed. The shuttered cupboard, now and office, held the unattractive spices. There are jars of pasta and candy, sweets and so forth, and they haven't been changed, at least not yet. Probably won't be touched, looks fine, seems preserved.

The chandelier in the kitchen, kind of a hideous pastiche of glazed, colored glass, wood and brass? The story is, it was in the front room, originally. Walter Mathis had taken it to a consignment shop, and some guy offered him 0, on the spot, for the chandelier. When queried why, Walter was going to sell it for , these are 1969 Dollars, so that was a great deal of money, then the prospective buyer pointed out that the lamp, chandelier, was signed by Tiffany. A real Tiffany Lamp.

(Provenance on this is suspect, too. Very suspect.)

It now hangs high overhead in the kitchen.

Adjacent to the kitchen is the Butler's Pantry, with a full wet-bar, the wood work more of the rescued cabinetry.

Finally, the Pewter Room. At this point, I'm out of energy, having talked for the better part of 45 minutes or so, and quite tired. Pewter Room. Lots of pewter on the shelf, beer steins, and the Rhine Maiden.

Another gloriously hideous chandelier, actually, an antique Bier Garten. candelabra, from the old country. Came from a German Saloon with German immigrants, perhaps a little before the Villa Finale was built. By the turn of the century, it wound up at the Buckhorn Saloon, open during Prohibition, to make it's way to Walter's back den. Ride of the Valkyries? Yes, that kind of Rhine Maiden, cf., Wagner's Ring Cycle, first and last opera. She was supposed to guard the gold in the Rhine.

The other bizarre piece is a very art nouveau lamp. The threesome. Kind of hard to tell, but looks like two naked women intertwined with a single topless guy. Story was, he bought this as a tabletop lamp, and at close to five or six feet tall, it doesn't really set well on a tabletop, but that's what it is now.

Out the back door, onto the back porch. It's easy to see, while getting off the booties, where the new stuff had been added on the original building. Underneath the back portion, a cellar was added.

One of the owners, owned the Casino when it was located n downtown San Antonio, and when the Prohibition hit, moved his operation to his cellar. Unverified. Gambling operations, bawdy house, speakeasy, all by reputation, but not substantiating facts support the allegations.

Once the booties are off, there's a small arc around the building Walter Mathis's ashes are interred under a small flag, the small gatehouse and the big carriage house serves as onsite offices for some, plus a bathroom and lockers for over-sized purses.

The original plan for this section of the RiverWalk was to carve through the Villa Finale property, imminent domain and all. Mr. Mathis, as a civic leader and patron of the arts, fought city hall - and won. Look a the aerial plat, and the river's course bends around his property.

There are three friezes, set in the southern wall, borders the property. Same artist as the Cenotaph for the Alamo, downtown.

The tour concludes in the wrought-iron gazebo, cupola. Walter's niece was married there, in the spring of 1970, and the hose has been, like a museum, ever since.

Family members have toured Villa Finale, and the most common comment, "Wow, just like he left it, except now, everything is so clean...."


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Rememberlike a sponge absorbs water, which would then use the mixture of shaving cream before it is absorbed in the magic on your face. The amount of water absorbed by the brush strongly depend on the type of bristle, so the choice of material is a brush from one of the most important decisions you will make. The brushes are divided into types of material used for the bristles.

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Badger hair shaving brushes are just some of thebest ones available on the market, shaving enthusiasts also claim that these brushes are an absolute luxury to use. The rate bristles are very soft to the touch, which is important for use on delicate facial skin. These are also the most durable brushes that are higher, the use of synthetic materials for its bristles. Higher than for other materials are priced brushes, these brushes are still considered the best of wet shaving enthusiasts.

Boar's hair brusheshave a lower water holding capacity, lower than that of badger hair, the smallest amount of water held by a foam brush leads to less effective. Wild boar bristles often feel sharp and stiff bristles away from the soft, fine hair rate.

Synthetic brushes are available in different price and quality available, mostly depending on the specific material used synthetic and duration. Some of these brushes are made of nylon with pure, some mixedBoar hair brush in the hope that it is more useful (what kind of logic of a brush with synthetic challenge especially if you opt for a vegan choice, for example, were seeking). These brushes are the least expensive, although they are known to be the hardest and pricklies, but also keep the minimum amount of water. Users who are allergic to animal hair would benefit most from the use of synthetic fibers.

After the founding of the different types of shaving brushes andBrush with badger hair - different materials used for them, we preferred to focus on the more humid shaving material from most fans. These high quality brushes are classified further used in the form of badger hair.

Are these are the hairs from the neck rate, as the softest and most luxurious - Silver Tip. It is the most expensive type of badger hair, because of its limited availability. In the colder winter months, the hairs of the neck muchLighthouses. Brushes silver-haired head are usually assembled by hand or handmade. Some manufacturers are known to produce brushes of a high-end variety, carefully selected to two bands, silver tip of the hair: the now-defunct Simpson of Manchuria and the White Mountain Plisson.

Super Badger - this hair is almost like silver lace, brush the tips with a rate Super silver content, almost off-white color. The material is very soft, almost luxurious as theSilver Peak.

Best Badger - badger these are found in 20-25% of the body of the product. The hair is lighter and longer than pure badger hair.

Pure Badger - that are stained dark brown or black and are of lower quality badger hair, which are made from the roof of the lower abdomen. It 'also seen with her hair dark. Some fans prefer to shave this material for its strict quality. Generally, the most pureBadger brushes are made by a machine (ie pure badger hair shaving mill). A notable exception is that their Vulfix badger brush is still hand.

After deciding on the material that you like for your shaving brush bristles, it's time for the handle of the brush, that look would work best for you. Before discussing the uses of different materials for the handle, you must first dimension of the node, which is the diameter of the bristles at the end of the handle, this wouldShe has a clear idea of ​​how big would the brush against your face. Brush with a size larger node would be able to produce more foam, but can create problems for people with smaller faces. With everything that would determine the best size depends on the node, as always, needs and personal preferences.

Shave brush handles
Brush handles should be considered carefully to ensure you always have the perfect shaving brush (at least for personal use). Regardless of theThe material must have a handle well in the hand to eliminate or minimize the difficulties, if the maneuvering of the brush before shaving.

Plastic handles are very common nowadays, even in the more expensive shaving brush. It is part of a robust material that can withstand even the toughest requirements, the plastic feels very comfortable when held. The users are fewer problems with plastic handles in a slippery and wet bathwhere the smoothing is usually done.

Wooden handle brushes are also very versatile, and are also waterproof. These handles give a classic look of shaving brushes, and with proper care can give years of service to the owner. Those who choose to go for wooden handles should be diligent in taking care of them, because the wood will weather over time, can accelerate this process, if proper maintenance is not performed.

Brushes metal handle is a very elegant and classic. Some ofMaterials that can be used for shaving brush handles, gold, brass, chrome and nickel. Just as wooden handles, these must be cleaned and metal for the maintenance of their characteristic taken finish. Metal handles are perfect for those who want to have a brush with a single explanation, but can also be personalized and given as a gift. The disadvantage of metal handles is their weight, heavy brush are quite difficult to maneuver.

Other unique and exoticMaterials include tortoise and ivory handle the brush to give a distinctive look. However, it should be noted that the handle of the material does not affect the quality of the brush, if used.

You can activate a number of reliable producers of me help you in your search for the perfect shaving brush. Include some of the most trusted brands in the industry Edwin Jagger, Kent, Simpsons, Shavemac, Omega, Muhle, and Vulfix Plisson, these are the brands most famous lovers in wet shavingfrom around the world. Most of these brands can be purchased online at the websites of their producers, or through commercial sites, and both options offer customers convenient shopping and delivery processes.

If you are not sure which brand to buy, it would be best to find product reviews and testimonials from customers who want to look to share their opinions. This is a great way to weigh your options, how to get impartial and straight-to-the-point commentsPeople who have actually used the products (as opposed to ads that just naturally focus on the positive attributes of a brand).

Look for the beard, and it meets all your needs require a significant amount of time and effort, you may need a series of tests before the discovery of brushes which brand or type fit your needs perfectly. If you are at last, the final shaving brush, shaving your bathroom look more satisfying too.


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Species of badger hair shaving brush

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The shaving brush used by hairdressers and a sample of wet shaving for over a hundred years, made by reputable companies such as GB Kent and Edwin Jagger.

These brushes are human beings as the pinnacle of shaving brushes, because they are entirely handmade using techniques and ideas that have not changed at all made more than a decade called. The raw material prize that can be used in a shaving brush is badger hair. Badger has unique properties, because it is softand touch the skin and it's hard, but keeps the water at the same time.

A rate of quality hair shaving brushes silver tip costs about £ 100, but they are so good that when you are very well maintained can last a lifetime and help you pass the next shave of your life. The height of the handle, the hair quality and determine the percentage of badger hair is, how expensive is each brush.

Badger hair is divided into three main grades, pure, and ratedsuper.

Purely

Badger hair is dark by the short-medium length.

Better

In the medium to long term hair has the properties of a head light and creamy feel a little 'softer on the skin.

Excellent

Long hair, which has a creamy white lace and is very popular. With this type of hair brushes are very expensive to buy.

The majority of badger hair brush is used today come from rates in China, where the rate is not a protected species.


Species of badger hair shaving brush

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Pre-School Learning - strategies to make learning fun

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Preschool children learn an amazing amount of information and many skills and concepts in the early years of their lives. They do this primarily through the game. Parents can ensure their child learning experience through creative strategies to ensure that learning with fun and excitement associated with improvement.

Learning should be like a trip to the sea. It should inspire and enchant you entertain.

Many adults may remember the exciting chaos of packing bathing suits, toys,Food, drink and do not forget the dog. You may remember the agony of the long drive and traffic, then the excitement of taking the first taste of the sea by the surrounding buildings. Finally there was the sea - a billowing, blue, mysterious invitation to splashing, running, rolling, jumping, swimming, laughing and crying. The heat, the hot sand was just waiting in a huge castle that a racing car with a bucket on wheels or a face enormous fun to be activated!

Pre-school to learnbe. Parents and guardians of preschool children are able to convey that sense of expectation and joy when they first decided to teach their preschool children.

Take learning, color and paint. It is an activity that children can talk for hours and is easy to do and more comfortable than a hobby.

Parents with a trip to the stationery, which can begin to be transformed into an adventure with a little 'fantasy. Previously, children can select imagesPots of paint, brushes, pencils and drawing paper by an old warehouse catalog or magazine. These can then be cut and pasted on a piece of paper. What a perfect shopping list for a pre-reading child!

Apart from the joy of many colorful elements elections in the store, the child will learn in preschool also, about the business of selling products, the categories of goods, as the pencil and crayons in one place, another paper and books appearance and the exchange of money for goods (notto deliver the money).

At home, a special room where the child can draw, paint and color can be created. It should be clear tidy, with everything close at hand in containers. These are a little 'out of shoe boxes (for paint cans and brush), use plastic containers (for pastels), clean ice cream cartons (for drinking water to wash brushes), and egg cartons (the colors in mix) did. If necessary, measures taken to ensure the child is able to work freely without worrying about isa chaos of carpets and furniture.

All must be in place for the imagination of the Pre-Schooler to take over. If the child wants to spread is really a roll of paper covering the shop background a great idea. There may be limits to the size of a monster or a car or a drawing of the mummy. The paper is simply what the child needs to be rolled length.

Playing time can be greatly enhanced with music, movement and stories. Children love to dance and sing.Parents can join in the dance with the children singing for children, or Brer Rabbit jump like. The child likes to do a twinkle Star, Twinkle, Little Star to sing or do a scavenger hunt around the room with mom or dad. The pre-school children can be encouraged to become his own hand for the battery (the biscuit tin and wooden spoons), flute (cardboard roll from paper towels) and rattle (or rice noodles in a plastic bottle) accompanies.

If children associateFeelings of joy and excitement of learning with an activity, that activity easier and this is especially true when parents join in. With a little 'planning and creativity, parents can give preschoolers a chance to live happy, help them develop a positive attitude towards learning.


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