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Tattooing has over the years weathered many a storm – and with anything popular there is also a down side – And the following article is one that...

Horace Ridler was born in the year 1882, into a world full of luxury and privilege. And attended some of the finest schools in Victoria England.

The Ridler family who were as upper class as...

1. Roman Emperor Caeser wrote that all Briton’s stain their skins with woad, and Herod of Antioch found that the Briton’s had animal designs incised onto their bodies.
2. The Pict’s of Scotland also painted their...

The Passing of a Legend: Remembering Painless Jeff Baker

Well as we all get older, its bound to happen, and on the 28th of October 2009 it did. When the tattooing...

Over the years many tattoo artists have sought to find and make a newer, cleaner and easier to handle tattooing machine.

And although tattooing machines run by air have been tried many times before, none have...

Ron Ackers attended five of Les Skuse’s ‘Bristol Tattoo Club’ get togethers and was so impressed with what he had seen, told Les that he would also like to do something along the same lines.

And with Les being the man he was,...

Daniel George Leslie Skuse (1938-2009)…

What a week that was, when the world learned the sad news that the beautiful movie star Farrah Fawcett, and music icon Michael Jackson had passed away within hours of each...

The classic record album ‘Indelibly Stamped’ by the group ‘Supertramp’ had on its cover the tattooed lady Marion Hollier and not Rusty Skuse as is often thought.

The record album ‘Indelibly Stamped’ (released June 1971) had...

1. New Zealand’s Roger Ingerton moved to Sydney, Australia in 1957, and tattooed with hand tools around the local pubs and for a time in his living accommodation. He also started to get tattooed by Australian tattooing...

In the years 1893-94, 1896-97 and 1898-1900 the Dutch government sponsored Dr Anton Nieuwenhuis in three expeditions to Borneo – to study the Dayaks of Kalimantan (Borneo being at the time a part of the Dutch East Indies).

And one...

A great DVD hit American stores in 2005 entitled ‘Stoney Knows How’

Which although only 29 minutes and 12 seconds long is a great piece of tattooing history – And in it we see Stoney St Clair tattooing tattoo legend Don Ed Hardy – Ed who...