The history of Chinese inks can be traced back to the 18th century BC, with the utilization of natural plant ( plant dyes ), animal, and mineral inks based on such materials as graphite that were ground with water and applied with ink brushes.

Because these solvents thin the oil in the paint, they can also be used to clean paint brushes.

In the liquid application, paint can be applied by direct application using brushes, paint rollers, blades, other instruments, or body parts such as fingers and thumbs.

Water-based paints tend to be the easiest to clean up after use ; the brushes and rollers can be cleaned with soap and water.

Tubes can also be regarded as graphic brushes based on a pre-created image ; this was their original use.

Crafting tools such as paint brushes can be used as data storage equipment.

Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, e. g. creating lights from a field of opaque color.

Metal tools and special brushes can be used to shape the paint before it cools, or heated metal tools can be used to manipulate the wax once it has cooled onto the surface.

For some decorative purposes, multi-nibbed pens — steel brushes — can be used.

A user without disabilities, with proper training in manual brushing, and with good motivation, can achieve standards of oral hygiene at least as satisfactory as the best electric brushes, but untrained users rarely achieve anything of the kind.

But by this place Christian went without much danger, whereat I somewhat wondered ; but I have learnt since, that Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger dayes, grown so crazy and stiff in his joynts, that he can now do little more than sit in his Caves mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them.

Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, e. g. creating lights from a field of opaque colour.

Its portability makes it ideal for plein air painting, and painters today can buy compact watercolor kits — containing a dozen or more pan paints, collapsible brushes, water flask, brush rinsing cup and fold out mixing trays — that fit neatly into a coat pocket.

Upright vacuum cleaners can scratch and wear the surface, as grit particles become embedded in the spinning brushes.

The hair is placed on one of a pair of short-bristled brushes called " drawing brushes " with the root ends extending over one edge, and the second brush is pressed down on top of it so that a few strands can be withdrawn at a time, leaving the rest undisturbed.

Quipu cords can be " mechanically cleaned with brushes, small tools and light vacuuming ".

To add to the realism, the oil and watercolor brushes can only paint for a small distance before the user must re-click ( this gives the illusion that the paint brush has run out of paint ).

Turpentine or thinners used in oil painting can destroy some types of synthetic brushes.

For descaling, various acidic chemicals or brushes can be used or some heads have rubber-like jets that can be manually descaled.

Some brushes are telescoping, so that the bristles can be pulled inside a hollow handle and the fan made by the bristles can be of variable length, width and density.

Drawing may be done with a liquid medium, applied with brushes or pens.

Seconds later, the Tragedians begin to clap and the Player stands up and brushes himself off, revealing the knife to be a theatrical one with a retractable blade.

The brushes wear out and need to be periodically replaced, and the commutator wears down and needs to be resurfaced, then the whole machine is rebuilt when the commutator wears too thin.

Fainter bluish or purplish areas may be visible between the yellow brushes ( see illustration ).

Because of the time travel aspect, many episodes include " brushes with greatness ", alluding to famous people or incidents indirectly, such as suggesting to a 12-year-old Donald Trump that New York real estate would be valuable in the future, or setting in place actions that led to the discovery of the break-in at the Watergate Hotel.

Loofahs, microfibre cloths, natural sponges or brushes may be used to exfoliate with, simply by rubbing them over the face in a circular motion.

The rotor's magnetic field may be produced by induction ( as in a " brushless " alternator ), by permanent magnets ( as in very small machines ), or by a rotor winding energized with direct current through slip rings and brushes.

Chrome surfaces cannot be cleaned with abrasives and sharp / hardened metal utensils common in commercial cooking environments, so special spatulas, brushes and cleansers are required for the operation and maintenance of these products.

If brushes are cleaned after use, they can last for years.

`` My brushes are different from those used by most watercolorists, for I combine the sable and the bristle.

This seems to pose a serious problem for the empirical account, though Hume brushes it aside as an exceptional case by stating that one may experience a novel idea that itself is derived from combinations of previous impressions.

Everyday objects such as abaci, benches, fans, ink brushes, smoking pipes, sewing needles, or various musical instruments, are also used by characters as weapons as well.

Larvae swim either through propulsion with their mouth brushes, or by jerky movements of their entire bodies, giving them the common name of " wigglers " or " wrigglers ".

It did not contain any brushes ; all the cleaning was done by suction through long tubes with nozzles on the ends.

*** Brushless DC motor, a synchronous electric motor which is powered by direct current electricity and has an electronically controlled commutation system, instead of a mechanical commutation system based on brushes

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas brushes off comments by President Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah, who indicated he could dismiss the Hamas-led cabinet.

Their marriage, marked by his frequent absences and brushes with the law, was short-lived, and after January 1929 their paths never crossed again.

The instrumentation of the recordings was primarily acoustic guitar, occasionally accompanied by brief electric guitar riffs or a small drum set played with brushes.

1993 ÇA FROTTE – ( It brushes ) by Luc Ferrari

Greene's first brushes with the entertainment industry came when he was an audio technician for rock bands based in Newfoundland and Labrador, when he went by the alias Mabes.

Normally head lice infest a new host only by close contact between individuals, making social contacts among children and parent child interactions more likely routes of infestation than shared combs, brushes, towels, clothing, beds or closets.

It has a distinctive appearance with two large contra-rotating discs mounted in a vertical plane, two crossed bars with metallic brushes, and a spark gap formed by two metal spheres.

From the 1950s, he began to work in portraiture, often nudes ( though his first full length nude was not painted until 1966 ), to the almost complete exclusion of everything else, and by the middle of the decade developed a much more free style using large hogs-hair brushes, with an intense concentration of the texture and colour of flesh, and much thicker paint, including impasto.

Unlike Japanese and Chinese Toxicodendron verniciflua resin, Burmese lacquer does not cause allergic reactions ; it sets slower, and is painted by craftsmen's hands without using brushes.