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Article: Feature: Writing Brush Factory Combs Gold Out of Babies' Hair
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 19, 1996
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A Chinese writing brush factory in the Chinese capital has
discovered that the top of a baby's head can be a lucrative place.
The Beijing Jinghua Writing Brush Factory is persuading Beijing
people to allow its specially trained barbers to cut their babies'
hair, promising a pleasant surprise for parents: a pair of baby-
hair
writing brushes.
The writing tools can serve as souvenirs to mark a baby's birth,
said a salesman from the factory.
Liu Hong, director of the factory's market development department,
said that only baby hair can be made into a writing brush, because
baby hair has sharp tips that can form a natural nib. He added that
once a head of baby hair is cut, the strands that are ...