08-12-2010, 10:52 PM
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
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Originally Posted by sweetwater
You'd think with all that time to plan an elegant and handsome design the tattoos might demonstrate some degree of artistic endeavor, wouldn't you?  |
In prison, around 1900, with...
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Conditions in prisons allowed only for primitive tools and dangerous chemicals to be used in tattooing. Paper clips, pins, wires, razor blades and pieces of glass were used to puncture the skin and powdered coal, charcoal, burned rubber, cork, pencil refills, ink, watercolours and crayons were used as colour pigments, often mixed with water, urine, soap, cream or fat.
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Artistic was moot.
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