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Trash Polka is a tattoo style created by tattoo artists Simone Pfaff and Volker Merschky in Würzburg, Germany. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The characteristics of Trash Polka tattoos can be a combination of naturalistic, surrealistic, [ 3 ] and photorealistic motifs with graphic, lettering, and calligraphic elements primarily in black & red.
Irezumi (入れ墨, lit. ' inserting ink ') (also spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.
Corey Miller (born March 13, 1967) is an American tattoo artist and television personality. He began tattooing at the age of 15. [1] He is the owner of a tattoo shop in Upland, California called Six Feet Under. He was one of the core tattoo artists on the reality television show LA Ink. [2] Miller specializes in black and gray portraits and ...
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A short video recorded during the making of a tattoo. Nitrile gloves are used during the process to avoid infections while perforating the skin. A sailor's forearm tattooed with a rope-and-anchor drawing, against the original sketch of the design; see sailor tattoos. An example of a tattoo design Application of a tattoo to a woman's foot
While the tradition itself originates with indigenous tribal animism, it became closely tied to the Hindu-Buddhist concept of yantra or mystical geometric patterns used during meditation. Tattoos of yantra designs were believed to hold magic power, and were used much like the kolam tattoos of India. For these people, religion is closely tied to ...
Albanian tattoo patterns: 19th century (top), early 20th century (bottom). They are symbols of the Sun and the Moon ; the cross (also swastika in some tattoos) is the Albanian traditional way to represent the deified Fire – Zjarri, evidently also called with the theonym Enji. [1]