Sable is the best type of hair for water colour brushes due to its excellent colour carrying capacity ability to point and to spring back to shape series 7 sables are the worlds finest first made for queen victoria they are the only tapered dressed sables this means the selection of a number of different length hairs for each brush head series 7 brushes have larger bellies width of the brush head and finer points giving maximum colour carrying capacity and the ultimate in control pa