depictionThe sample book
Burma, 1882 — flash, before the word existed
unknown · CC BY 4.0about 1,880 – 1,890 · Described in 1882
What it is
A book of drawings a Burmese tattooist carried, so the boy could pick his figures and their positions before the work started.
The long version
Shway Yoe: "The best sayas carry about sample-books with them containing clever drawings, from which the aspirant may select the patterns he likes best, and mark their relative positions before he takes the opium."
That is a flash sheet, a consultation and a layout, in 1882, in a tradition usually described as though the designs came out of nowhere.
Connected to
- The design block The same invention, three times over.
- Htoe kwin The work it was for.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | The Burman: His Life and Notions — scanned by the Internet Archive | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- The Burman: His Life and Notions — scanned by the Internet Archive
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there