There are several sizes for making Xuan pens.

There are six main sizes for making Xuan Pen, namely purple hair, wolf hair, wool, moustache, chicken feather, goose feather and other animal feathers.

1. process flow

Material selection: pen-making material workers should be familiar with the different qualities of wool and various kinds of wool, and be able to identify their wool quality, properties and uses. According to the main materials, such as mountain wool, rabbit hair, yellow wolf tail hair, stone badger hair, pen container, horn and so on. , respectively, according to the length, thickness, color, positive and negative differences for sorting and classification, to prevent confusion, to prepare for the selection.

Rod-making: mainly select qualified pen-making raw materials, distinguish colors according to specifications, have uniform thickness, round and straight appearance, and have certain technical indexes in diameter, rod length, ellipticity and curvature. Eliminate inferior pens with chapped, moth-eaten, old skin color and uneven thickness to ensure the texture requirements of pens. The main processes are blanking, vehicle management, taking over and connecting.

Thimble: The finished nib and penholder need to be jacketed, and the jacketing worker carefully jacketed the tied nib and the selected penholder according to certain specifications and models.

Brush dressing: also known as brush selection, is also a key process in the production of Xuan pen, which requires very fine and complicated requirements. Generally, it has to go through welding wool finishing, dipping, trimming and shaping, drying and other processes. The pen picker must hold his breath and be calm before choosing a pen.

Mosaic: In order to make the shape of the pen container beautiful, elegant, rich and luxurious, it can also be inlaid, that is, the pen container made of rare materials such as torreya grandis, anemone bamboo, arhat bamboo, ivory, mahogany and sandalwood is inlaid with corner ornaments, which are mainly divided into filing, sawing and planing.

Engraving: It is a profound process in Xu Anbi's production, which requires excellent literary accomplishment and swordsmanship, as well as proficiency in different calligraphy styles. According to the needs of different product specifications and shapes, the engraver engraves the pen names and brand numbers of various books on the circular pen container to ensure that the fonts are evenly arranged, the sizes are consistent, and the words are neat and orderly, so as to meet various requirements such as no spelling, no deviation, no falling off, and smooth strokes.

Inspection and packaging: the molded pens are inspected and accepted one by one according to certain quality indicators before leaving the factory to ensure that each pen can meet the standards of "sharp, neat, round and healthy".

2. Process characteristics

Xu Anbi is flexible and appropriate, his strokes are even and solid, his writing is fluent, and he can send and receive freely, which can not only store ink but also be fat. Soft and plump in the front, not plump, flexible in turning, able to accept and release, both rigid and flexible; Purple hair is sharp, strong and soft, easy to exert strength and master; Langhao's brush ink is even and smooth, combining rigidity with softness, and the path of writing is quite strong; Double both brush pen is more suitable for calligraphy and painting, both soft and hard.

"Sharp, neat, round and healthy" is also known as the "four virtues" of writing brush. Sharp means that the pen tip should be as sharp as a cone, and its function is to facilitate the writing of strokes such as hook and stroke. Qi means that after the brush hair is scattered, the front hair is flush, which is beneficial to uniform ink jet; Round means that the root of the pen is cylindrical, round and full, and the hair covered is uniform, which is used for writing smoothly without bifurcation; Health refers to the flexibility of the pen tip when writing and painting, which can show the pen strength.