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Come and have a look at our unique tattoos and find out more about piercing and scarification
Involves scratching, etching, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification.
Scarification, the art of carving decorative scars into the skin, is an ancient practice on the continent of Africa. The first Europeans to encounter Africans commented upon the patterns of scars that decorated the bodies of many of the people. They learned that scarification was practiced according to strict social rules that dictated the time a scar could be made and the designs used. In African cultures that practiced scarification, scars indicated a person's rank in society and were considered to improve a person's physical beauty.
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT TATTOOs
Tahitians believed that the process of tattooing the body served to contain its sacred power.
The Polynesian view of the body differed from that of the Europeans. Polynesians believed that there were two worlds: the world of light and ordinary life (ao) and the world of darkness and gods (po). Humans came from po at birth and returned there at death. This gave the body a potentially dangerous primal power, which would overcome the present world if it was not contained. A number of rites from infancy onwards were designed to restrain this power by lessening the body's sacredness.
In Tahiti, these rites culminated in the act of tattooing the body around the time of puberty in order to 'seal off' its power.
Other popular tattoos amongst sailors are also attributed with particular meanings:
A full-rigged ship shows the seaman has sailed round Cape Horn
An anchor indicates he has sailed the Atlantic Ocean
A dragon denotes that the bearer has served on a China station
A shellback turtle shows the sailor has crossed the Equator
'Hold' tattooed on the knuckles of one hand and 'fast' on the other were said to allow the bearer to grip the rigging better.
In October 1991 a 5,000-year-old frozen body of a Bronze Age hunter was found between Austria and Italy. The body, nicknamed Ozti the iceman, was found in a glacier and was so well preserved that scientists were able to make out a number of tattoos. These included a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15 cm above the kidneys and a series of parallel lines on the ankles. This was one hip ancient guy!
King Harold II of England had a numerous of tattoos. His body was identified after his death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 by his tattoos.
The design of the doorbell was used to make the original tattoo machine. It is incredible what motivates inventors.
It became extremely fashionable for aristocrats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to be tattooed. Tattooing was very expensive in the beginning and only the elite could afford it. Later, when tattooing became popular with the lower classes, the practice fell out of favour with the social elite.
Tattoos are an easy way for women to attract attention to themselves and their beauty. That's why they are popularly done on lower backs and breasts.
The word “tattoo” comes from the Tahitian word “tatau,” which means to mark.
Lease painful areas to get a tattoo are the fleshy parts of the arms and legs. Areas near joints (wrists, elbows, knees, ankles) hurt most because more nerves are located there. .
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