Good colour-holding for washes, glazing and design, thick and thin strokes.Sapphire Brushes are a unique blend of only the finest red sable hair and tapered synthetic filaments, working together to create a brush that performs like a sable, and lasts like a synthetic.Sapphire is designed for artists who demand the pointing quality, colour-holding and spring of a traditional sable, as well as the durability and value associated with synthetic brushes. Sapphire comes in a wide choice of head shapes with short handles, for fine art and decorative painting in watercolours, oils, acrylic, inks and gouache.