While plenty of tattooers struggle to find a solid unique style using a machine, some of the most advanced artists in the world are focused on tattooing techniques that predated modern coil and rotary ...

Tebori is Japanese for “hand-carved,” referring to the indigenous method of tattooing by hand using a sharpened bamboo stick called a nomi. Holding the nomi like a pool cue, artists insert the ink ...

At a small, clinically-lit studio in Tokyo’s Roppongi district, fearsome warriors and mythical creatures glare out from paper drawings lining the perimeter of the space. The tattooist here, who asked ...

People are now travelling across the world just to get inked; after all, a tattoo made far from home is a reminder that you ...

For Horimitsu, the sound of needles painting skin is a soft, rhythmic scratching, like a solitary cricket - "sha, sha, sha". For 30 years he has tattooed by hand in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, needing nothing ...

The first tattoo Lee D’Angelo ever got, they gave to themselves. The 27-year-old transgender tattoo artist was 18 at the time, and a friend showed them how to do it using India ink. “I had an ...

Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, tattooing was entering its Renaissance period. Thanks in large part to Instagram, tattoo artists—once confined to walk-in shops or freelance hustles that relied on ...