Aug 12, 2010: Prison Tattoos - Page 2

monster · 08-12-2010, 10:02 PM

The guy in the first one is saying -look! there's some soap! why don't you pick it up?

HungLikeJesus · 08-12-2010, 10:46 PM

The one in the middle is from my great-grandfather.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-12-2010, 10:52 PM

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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.

Artistic was moot.

spudcon · 08-14-2010, 08:46 AM

That's more than I needed to know. All those toxins, and mutilation too.

08-12-2010, 10:02 PM	#16
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	The guy in the first one is saying -look! there's some soap! why don't you pick it up? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-12-2010, 10:46 PM	#17
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	The one in the middle is from my great-grandfather. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

08-14-2010, 08:46 AM	#19
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	That's more than I needed to know. All those toxins, and mutilation too. __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

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