Spornette International was founded by Walter Sporn as The Walter Sporn Company in the very early 1950's. One of Walter's first ideas came after meeting an engineer who was making eye liner and lip brushes for a major cosmetic conglomerate and he convinced the engineer that if he could implant plastic handles with nylon bristles, then making professional hair brushes should be a snap. The engineer took his suggestion and several months later, The Walter Sporn Company introduced 2 items – the no-name 5 row and 7 row nylon bristle, plastic-handled brushes – to the professional beauty supply/distributor industry which was still in its infancy. "The Little Wonder", "The Petite", "The Continental", "The Duette", and many other original brushes were soon introduced and made Spornette brushes the industry’s standard.