Escoda

Escoda Badger hair is expertly hand crimped and crafted into a brush that you'll turn to for years to come. Escoda specially cures each brush for increased resiliency and versatility, making it a pleasure to use.

Escoda's Black Sable, also known as fitch hair or polecat hair, is less stiff than light ox hair at around the same price. An alternative to bristle and kolinsky, this handcrafted brush is often used when painting with thinned oil colors.

Escoda hand cures each Bravo brush, so that what results is a tool that offers remarkable spring and resilience. The long, lacquered red wood handle offers superb control. It's attached to the nickel-plated brass ferrule via a triple crimping process.

Escoda handcrafts premium-quality bristle to create a superior quality brush that stands up beautifully to heavy paint. The Clasico Chungking White Bristle retains its original shape and handles wonderfully.

Looking for something a little out of the ordinary? The Modernista Tadami brush from Escoda is one of the finest crafted brushes we've seen. The synthetic filament is designed to simulate the feel of mongoose hair, a favorite of painters for centuries.

Escoda Natural Bristle Brushes offer oil and acrylic painters a premium range of large, handmade bristle brushes at an economical price. Each brush features Chungking bristle, a stainless steel ferrule, and an ergonomic natural wood handle.

Escoda Opera Takatsu is a synthetic filament that has a feel that is almost identical to traditional sable, but much more robust. The extra natural spring and resilience of the blended filaments makes it an excellent choice for acrylics and oils.

The fine haired Escoda Optimo Kolinsky sable forms a soft brush head, which is great for delicate, controlled work. Escoda cures the brush hair resulting in remarkable spring and resilience. The long, lacquered blue wood handle offers superb control.

Perla Toray White is the finest quality synthetic fiber available for artists working with oils and acrylics. It keeps an excellent edge for a soft, yet controlled application. Escoda cures each brush to increase the spring and resilience of the hair.

Escoda's Prado Tame synthetic offers varying lengths and diameters of a new high-performance filament that has been perfectly blended to perform exactly like a pure sable brush. Excellent for oil, acrylic, or watercolor.

Escoda Primera Teijin is a maroon-colored synthetic with thicker and stiffer fibers for work with heavier bodied paints. The Teijin fiber holds its shape extremely well with fantastic spring.

Escoda Reserva Kolinsky-Tajmyr Sable Brushes are crafted using only the tail hairs from the male Kolinsky found in Siberia. Renowned for their springiness and capacity to retain liquids results in a brush that many artists consider to be the world’s best. Following a 75-year tradition, these exceptional brushes are crafted by hand to offer the finest points and sharpest edges available. Each is produced with a perfectly balanced, lacquered wood handle and a nickel-plated ferrule.

Created in partnership with world-renowned watercolorist Joseph Zbukvic, Escoda Aquario Gold Squirrel Mop Brushes magnify the unique features of the original Aquario brush with a longer length and an improved tip.

Escoda's Aquario Squirrel hair is extremely soft and more delicate than other hairs. It's so fine that a brushstroke will not leave voids or hair tracks. The round point and short red lacquered wood handle are ideal for detail work.

Escoda Barroco Toray Gold is the finest quality synthetic fiber available for artists working with watercolors. Slightly stiffer than the Toray white, it keeps an excellent point and edge for a soft, yet controlled application.

The Escoda Optimo Kolinsky Sable brushes are a marriage of beauty, form and function. Snappy pristine Kolinsky hair is delicately hand crimped into a nickel brass ferrule. The short, blue, lacquered wood handle offers the control needed for detail work.

The Escoda Reserva Kolinsky-Tajmr Pocket Brushes are exquisite travel brushes that can be easily tucked into a pocket or plein air box. Hidden within each brush’s golden chamber resides a regular length, pure Escoda Kolinsky-Tajmyr Kolinsky Sable Pointed Round brush.

Escoda Reserva Kolinsky-Tajmyr Sable Brushes are crafted using only the tail hairs from the male Kolinsky found in Siberia. Renowned for their springiness and capacity to retain liquids results in a brush that many artists consider to be the world’s best. Following a 75-year tradition, these exceptional brushes are crafted by hand to offer the finest points and sharpest edges available. Each is produced with a perfectly balanced, lacquered wood handle and a nickel-plated ferrule.

A modern-day alternative to Kolinsky, the Escoda Versatil brush utilizes a carefully selected custom blend of uniquely patterned synthetic fibers. These brushes provide great water retention, a firm spring, and a sharp, fine point, plus enhanced durability and a more consistent shape over the life

The perfect synthetic alternative to Kolinsky sable, Escoda Versatil Travel Brushes were designed with portability as their main feature. These extremely versatile brushes offer the same exceptional performance as their Escoda Versatil counterparts, but come fitted with brass caps that protect their delicate filaments. When removed, the cap fits on the end, transforming the brush into a full watercolor size.

Ideal for watercolor painting, Escoda Último Synthetic Squirrel Brushes offer a substantial water-holding capacity and exceptional softness that is an almost perfect imitation of natural squirrel hair. Expertly crafted in Spain by Escoda, an artisanal brush maker since 1933, the Último series represents a benchmark of quality for synthetic hair brushes.

Perfect for travel and plein air projects, Escoda Último Travel Brushes offer exceptional softness and substantial water-holding capacity that is a near-perfect imitation of natural squirrel hair.

Escoda handcrafts premium-quality bristle to create a superior quality brush that stands up beautifully to heavy paint. The Clasico Chungking White Bristle retains its original shape and handles wonderfully.

Escoda's Prado Tame synthetic offers varying lengths and diameters of a new high-performance filament that has been perfectly blended to perform exactly like a pure sable brush. Excellent for oil, acrylic, or watercolor.

Escoda Reserva Kolinsky-Tajmyr Sable Brushes are crafted using only the tail hairs from the male Kolinsky found in Siberia. Renowned for their springiness and capacity to retain liquids results in a brush that many artists consider to be the world’s best. Following a 75-year tradition, these exceptional brushes are crafted by hand to offer the finest points and sharpest edges available. Each is produced with a perfectly balanced, lacquered wood handle and a nickel-plated ferrule.

Escoda has partnered with some of the world's most accomplished artists to create these new Signature Brush Sets. All the artists use Escoda brushes and have chosen their favorites for these unique sets!

Escoda polecat hair is strong and meaty, with lots of vigor, like sable. It's ideal for glass and on-glaze painting. The round deer-foot shape is perfect for decorative pouncing or stippling of color. Escoda's Series 5808 brush has a short chunky handle.

These are perhaps the finest brushes available for working on ceramics, porcelain, and glass. Each brush is hand crafted in Spain, using the finest select hair and materials. Soft squirrel hair applies smoothly and hides brush strokes.

The Escoda Aquario 2032 is a flat, straight edged brush for painting broad passages, washes, and for varnishing. The short, tightly crimped squirrel hair offers terrific control, and a soft, fluid stroke. Escoda specially cures each handcrafted brush.

Escoda's Series 2336 is a flat, straight edged brush for painting broad passages, washes, and for varnishing. Barroco Toray Gold is the finest quality synthetic fiber available. Slightly stiffer than the Toray white, it keeps an excellent point and edge.

The Escoda Clasico Chunking is a long-lasting, high quality, economical handcrafted brush. The long white hog-bristle is great for varnish and gesso. It keeps an excellent edge for a controlled application. Escoda cures each brush.

This expertly crafted brush is perfect for covering large areas. If it's natural bristle you want, it's the finest available for varnishing, gessoing, glazing, and similar applications. Each brush is loaded with natural Shanghai Chungking hog bristle.

Escoda Restore Premium Brushes are a line of Chungking bristle and high-tech synthetic filament brushes designed to create a variety of finishes with chalk, clay, plaster, and latex paints, as well as waxes. Ergonomic handles offer optimum control and comfort.

The Escoda Series 6633 Gilder Tip is a specialized flat brush designed for the application of gold and metallic leaf. Made with sturdy squirrel hair, it carries the leaf from the gilder's cushion and lays it beautifully on a prepared surface.

Escoda takes great care in curing their brush hair so that what results is a tool offering remarkable spring and resilience. Their Light Ox hair is an excellent choice for medium-size stroke work, edging and striping.

This expertly crafted brush is perfect for covering large areas. If it's natural bristle you want, it's the finest available for varnishing, gessoing, glazing, and similar applications. Each brush is loaded with natural Shanghai Chungking hog bristle.

Hand-crafted Escoda brushes deserve the best care. Now they can receive it, when artists use Escoda's Artist Brush and Hand Soap. Made from 82% extra-virgin olive oil from sun-drenched Toledo, this 100% natural formula is both effective and truly gentle.