Here's a bundle of horsetail hair. The hair is from an animal, or animals, that lived and worked in #Siberia. They don't have many tractors there, but they do have a lot of horses. The animals were sold to a slaughterhouse in Harbin, China, where they were disassembled, the component parts cleaned and prepared for transport to different parts of the country.
Every part of the animal is used in some way. Belly hair, for example, is used in paint brushes! The tails are dried on a cobblestone lot, then loaded in burlap bags labeled by weight, length and color. The pallets are loaded onto freight trains to an auction facility outside #Anping, #China. There they are bid on by various companies.
The people I do business with bid according to color and length. They mostly supply black hair for car and furniture companies, but they are the oldest facility in the city that still processes #bow #hair in the original manner. If you want to read more about that, I wrote an article about it here.
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To order your own horsetail hair for bows