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Adam Sweet carefully selects the purest color and highest quality horsehair to create superior violin bows. Each strand of Mongolian horsetail hair is meticulously sorted for even thickness and length, ensuring maximum strength and a natural creamy white color.

Our horsetail hair is 100% natural and specifically designed for use in children’s violins, violins, violas, and cellos. With each bowstring requiring approximately 180-220 hairs and weighing approximately 7 grams, we guarantee a high-quality, long-lasting, and uniform product.

Pure white is the optimal color for horsetail hair, as other colors are not commonly used and do not provide the same quality as pure white. The horsehair used for our bows is smooth and expertly picked over six times to ensure the most perfect horsetail hair is used in our products.

It is important to note that the use of horsetail hair from the horse mane is not suitable for bowstring production, as it possesses poor quality and shorter length.

Our natural white horsetail hair is of the highest quality and boasts superior strength, excellent stretch, and recovery rate, providing the best possible sound quality for a variety of violins. For customers interested in a more affordable option, we also provide bleached white horsetail hair, made by bleaching high-quality black or other color horsetail hair to create a white appearance. Although the appearance is the same as natural white, the quality is not as high and is used primarily for low-cost options.

• For information on pricing, please contact us

AVAILABLE BOW HAIR BY COLOR:

Adam Sweet offers three main types of horsehair colors: natural, bleached, and dyed. You can learn more about each type on our website and choose the one that best suits your specific needs. We pride ourselves on our rich experience and professional technology in horsehair color processing, ensuring that each product we offer is of the highest quality.

Natural Color 

Pure natural horsehair is the most suitable for a violin bow, viola bow, and cello bow. Its high strength and thickness make it strong and durable, and its sound quality is excellent. Common natural color horsetails include white, black, brown, gold, and mixed colors.

Bleached Color

Bleached white horsehair is a color that is achieved by bleaching other natural horsehair. Although it appears slightly darker than natural white, its strength and sound quality are not as good as natural horsehair. However, its advantage is a lower cost, and it is only available in white.

Natural Dyed Hair

For those interested in more colors of horsehair, we also offer dyeing options. By using dyes to dye natural horsehair, we retain its natural properties while creating more interesting and bright colors. Our dyeing options support colors such as green, red, blue, yellow, purple, or orange, as well as mixed colors. Dyed horsehair is usually used in the production of various crafts and decorations and can also make the violin bow more personalized.

Bow Hair

Bow Hair For Sale - Articles

Adam Sweet carefully selects the purest color and highest quality horsehair to create superior violin bows. Each strand of Mongolian horsetail hair is meticulously sorted for even thickness and length, ensuring maximum strength and a natural creamy white color.

Our horsetail hair is 100% natural and specifically designed for use in children’s violins, violins, violas, and cellos. With each bowstring requiring approximately 180-220 hairs and weighing approximately 7 grams, we guarantee a high-quality, long-lasting, and uniform product.

Pure white is the optimal color for horsetail hair, as other colors are not commonly used and do not provide the same quality as pure white. The horsehair used for our bows is smooth and expertly picked over six times to ensure the most perfect horsetail hair is used in our products.

It is important to note that the use of horsetail hair from the horse mane is not suitable for bowstring production, as it possesses poor quality and shorter length.

Our natural white horsetail hair is of the highest quality and boasts superior strength, excellent stretch, and recovery rate, providing the best possible sound quality for a variety of violins. For customers interested in a more affordable option, we also provide bleached white horsetail hair, made by bleaching high-quality black or other color horsetail hair to create a white appearance. Although the appearance is the same as natural white, the quality is not as high and is used primarily for low-cost options.

• For information on pricing, please contact us

AVAILABLE BOW HAIR BY COLOR:

Adam Sweet offers three main types of horsehair colors: natural, bleached, and dyed. You can learn more about each type on our website and choose the one that best suits your specific needs. We pride ourselves on our rich experience and professional technology in horsehair color processing, ensuring that each product we offer is of the highest quality.

Natural Color 

Pure natural horsehair is the most suitable for a violin bow, viola bow, and cello bow. Its high strength and thickness make it strong and durable, and its sound quality is excellent. Common natural color horsetails include white, black, brown, gold, and mixed colors.

Bleached Color

Bleached white horsehair is a color that is achieved by bleaching other natural horsehair. Although it appears slightly darker than natural white, its strength and sound quality are not as good as natural horsehair. However, its advantage is a lower cost, and it is only available in white.

Natural Dyed Hair

For those interested in more colors of horsehair, we also offer dyeing options. By using dyes to dye natural horsehair, we retain its natural properties while creating more interesting and bright colors. Our dyeing options support colors such as green, red, blue, yellow, purple, or orange, as well as mixed colors. Dyed horsehair is usually used in the production of various crafts and decorations and can also make the violin bow more personalized.

Where does bow hair come from? How is it made?

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.

#violinbow #fiddlebow #cellobow #bowhair #horsetailhair #violin #China #Siberia #Harbin #Anping 

To order your own horsetail hair for bows

Where does bow hair come from? How is it made?

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.

#violinbow #fiddlebow #cellobow #bowhair #horsetailhair #violin #China #Siberia #Harbin #Anping 

To order your own horsetail hair for bows

Products For Sale

I import high quality bow hair, bows, accessories and tools for bow makers.  I've listed some of the products in a free Wix site here.  Everything is available for pickup at my Granby location (CDC Covid19 rules applied).  Sorry, shipping is not available at this time.

Read about my trip to China sourcing horse tail hair!  It was an amazing trip.

Read about how horse tail hair is processed for bows

In addition to bow hair and supplies for bow makers, I carry some unfinished instruments and a few other things.  I update it as new things come in.

Products For Sale

I import high quality bow hair, bows, accessories and tools for bow makers.  I've listed some of the products in a free Wix site here.  Everything is available for pickup at my Granby location (CDC Covid19 rules applied).  Sorry, shipping is not available at this time.

Read about my trip to China sourcing horse tail hair!  It was an amazing trip.

Read about how horse tail hair is processed for bows

In addition to bow hair and supplies for bow makers, I carry some unfinished instruments and a few other things.  I update it as new things come in.