Tampico kojin

A sort of hybrid brush hand bound in Wakayama after the style of small shuro kojin (fireside) brooms but of tampico fibre, harvested from agaves found only in the Chihuahuan desert. Tampico is renowned for its water and chemical resistance as well as water holding ability, a quality granted by its microscopically barbed and consequently mildly abrasive surface. A material of choice for natural dish-brushes as well as for cleaning and polishing metals or fingernails, all purposes to which this brush is ideally suited. Measures approximately 13cm by 5cm.