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Dyes and tools used to tattoo in ancient times

Antiguo tatuaje moko facial

Old tattoo moko facial

Many People don’t blink when you tell them what the inks are wearing to tattoo; as well as when you tell them that some areas make you cry in pain. And it is that tattoo has fascinated us since always, so its disadvantages do not intimidate us as they did not in ancient times; and they had plenty of reasons for it.

Dyes and tools used formerly

Many have been the utensils that have been used to pierce the skin and mark it with a tattoo: bird bones, fish thorns, turtle shells sharp in saw, shark teeth, bamboo reeds, cactus needles… with the advancement of civilization they were modernized a little, but not too much, as they used pins, razor blades or pieces of glass.

Utensilios para realizar un tebori

Utensils for making a Tebori

Herman Melville had the dubious privilege of living with cannibals for years. He narrated his experience in Taipi, Eden Cannibal, a book in which he describes the Moko: he used a short, thin stick with a shark tooth on the tip. The tattoo artist rhythmically hit the end with a wooden mallet and the tooth sank into the skin. There’s nothing.

Some claim that this is the hardest method of tattooing along with the fearsome tebori, but the piratescovered the outline of the drawing with gunpowder that inflamed with a flame. The expansive sling fixed the particles on the skin. Then they say about branding…

Los piratas: con un par

The pirates: with a pair

also have used dyes of all kinds: raw lizards, antimony mixed with melon and barley juice, animal fat with vegetable pigments, armor ash with candlestick nut and vegetable juice.

The black color was achieved at the bottom of a bowl and the ink was mixed with berry juice and even ocher earth. And the Celts used pigments so smelly that tattooists were forced to live away from the village.

Great sacrifices to honor a millennial art.

Learn more — What are tattooing inks made

of Your ideal body area for a tattoo

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Photos — thesteamerstrunk.blogspot.com, ecologiablog.com, taringa

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