 | Tattoo Yesterday and Today I think the real breakthrough in the late sixties and early seventies began with Sailor Jerry. He was the Cezanne of modern tattooing. He was greatly influenced by Japanese and Asian art, and he was actually more partial to Chinese culture than Japan ... read more>> |
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 | Tattoo Archive There are quite a few hats that I wear here. I'm a tattooer, I have a mail order business, selling posters and post cards and stuff, and then I do quarterly newsletters, so I do a lot of writing and research on the history of tattooing. The mail ... read more>> |
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 | Tattoo History : U.S.A. The most popular designs in traditional American tattooing evolved from the efforts of many artists who traded, copied swiped, and improved on each other's work. In this way they developed a set of stereotyped symbols which were inspired by the s ... read more>> |
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 | Tattoo History : England During the nineteenth century tattooing flourished in England as nowhere else in Europe. This was due in a large part to the tradition of tattooing in the British Navy, which began with the first voyage of Captain Cook in 1769. During the decades whi ... read more>> |
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 | Tattoo History : France Tattooing was widely practiced among seamen, laborers and convicts during the first part of the nineteenth century. Members of the middle and upper classes, however, thought it beneath their dignity, and it was never popular among the titled and the ... read more>> |
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 | Tattoo History : South America When Cortez and his conquistadors arrived on the coast of Mexico in 1519 they were horrified to discover that the natives not only worshipped devils in the form of statues and idols, but had somehow managed to imprint indelible images of these idols ... read more>> |
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 | Tattoo History : North America Most nineteenth century scholars took no interest in North American native tattooing. In 1909 the American anthropologist A.T. Sinclair surveyed the literature and noted with dismay that "one of the great difficulties in treating our subject is ... read more>> |
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 | Tattoo History : Japan The earliest evidence of tattooing in Japan is found in the form of clay figurines which have faces painted or engraved to represent tattoo marks. The oldest figurines of this kind have been recovered from tombs dated 5,000 BC or older, and many othe ... read more>> |
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 | Tattoo History : Tattooed Mummies In October 1991 a five thousand year old tattooed man made the headlines of newspapers all over the world when his frozen body was discovered on a mountain between Austria and Italy. He had apparently been hunting and was caught in a snow storm as he ... read more>> |
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 | The History of Tattooing Tattooing is one of the oldest forms of art. As far back as we have traces of human activity, we have indications that they have been tattooed. The first tattoos probably were created by accident. Someone had a small wound, and rubbed it with a hand ... read more>> |
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