Horsehair

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Horsehair

Horsehair refers to hair taken from the mane

Mane

Mane can have the following meanings:*The mane is used to describe the line of hair along the spine of the neck, starting behind the ears and ending just above the withers....
or tail of horse

Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
s. It has various uses including brush

Brush

The term brush refers to devices with bristles, wire or other filaments, used for cleaning, Personal grooming hair, cosmetics making painting, deburring and other kinds of surface finishing, and for many other purposes....
es and the bow

Bow (music)

In music, a bow is moved across some part of a musical instrument, causing vibration which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, although some bows are used with musical saws and other bowed idiophones....
s of musical instruments. The word is also used to refer to haircloth

Haircloth

Haircloth is a stiff, unsupple Textile typically made from horsehair and/or from the wooly hair of a camel. Although horsehair generally refers to the hair of a horse's mane or Tail , haircloth itself is sometimes called horsehair....
, a hard-wearing fabric

Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by Spinning raw wool fibres, linen, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel to produce long strands known as yarn....
made from horsehair. The term can also refer to horsehair plaster, a wallcovering material formerly used in the construction industry and now found only in older buildings; it has been replaced by drywall

Drywall

Drywall is a common building material typically made of a layer of gypsum plaster pressed between two thick sheets of paper, then kiln dried. Drywall is used globally for the finish construction of interior walls and ceilings....
and other cheaper, more modern materials.