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Authored / Created by	Arthur Gossard
Date	1936/12/16
Organization name	Wooster Brush Company, The
Industry Sector	Wholesale > Merchant Wholesalers - Nondurable Goods Manufacturing > Miscellaneous Manufacturing
Year	1936
Newspaper title	The Daily Record
Page number	12
Series title	Wooster Industries
Article title	The Wooster Brush Co.

NOTE-- This is one of a series of articles the Daily Record is publishing about Wooster industries. The series is intended to familiarize the general public with products which are made in Wooster by Wooster people. The articles were suggested by The Wooster Board of Trade to encourage the use of home-manufactured products. By Arthur Gossard. The Wooster Brush company was founded in 1851 by Adam Foss, grandfather of the present Foss management. The size of the plant and number of employees has increased from the original single owner to the large factory of today.

Millions of brushes a year, of every conceivable type necessary to the painter or decorator, are produced in the brush factory.

Little of the material used in the brushes can be obtained in America. More than eighty per cent of the hog bristles used in the manufacture of Wooster brushes comes from Chines. The remainder comes mostly from Russia.

Purchasers make the trip from Wooster to the bristle centers of China and contract for large quantities of material. In addition the company maintains its own full time representative in China to supervise bristle purchases.

The material is graded by Chinese hand labor into lengths, no bundle varying more than a quarter of an inch between the longest and shortest bristles. These are then wrapped separately and shipped to the factory.

Here the bristles are treated with steam and dried in a vacuum chamber to remove the curl, then combed and mixed to obtain the desired texture. Each particular blend of length and texture has a code designation and is specially prepared to fill a certain purpose in the line of brushes needed by decorators and painters.