‘Oh, we’re so much more liberated than those dreadful, hypocritical, repressed Victorians, and we’ve thrown away the corset.’ Well, I’m sorry, but if you look at shapewear in the 1920s, they’re doing the
“painting” on ivory, the artist would use acestrum, orviriculumto etch the design into the ivory first. It is not thought that this form of art was detailed due to the firing process when completed. The final painting process was called the pencillum encaustic. Here instead of using ...