Page 3 - Tattoo Facts

King George III of England, on...

Before Jessie Knight became Great Britain’s first professional female tattoo artist she worked for her father in his sharp shooting circus act.

Her job being to stand before...

On Captain Cook’s second voyage to the pacific (sailing from Plymouth, England, July the 13th 1772).

The commander of Cook’s second ship “Adventure” Captain Tobias Furneaux returned to England in 1774 with the Polynesian...

Early tattooed finds. In 1972 eight mummies (dated A.D. 1475) were found in Qllakitsoq, Greenland – and five of the six adult women and two children had blue and black tattoo marks on their face’s.

These tattooed marks consisting of...

Tattooing first appeared on the BBC in the 1930s, marking an important moment for the art form on British television. The very first tattoo artist to be featured on BBC TV was George Burchett, a well-known tattooer from Brighton. He...

The banning of tattooing marks.

In A.D.325 Emperor Constantine the Great, banned facial tattoos among Christian’s living in the Roman Empire. As it disfigured what was fashioned in God’s image. And in 787AD the British council of churches...

Famed English naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) who not only upset religious groups and scholars throughout the civilized world with his thoughts on evolution (that man descended from a lower animal form)...

After the Church banned the tattoo in 787AD – there was not much in evidence regarding tattooing in Britain in the forthcoming years, and we had to wait until 1691, when the tales of William Dampier...

Before she became the wife of British tattoo artist Bill Skuse. Rusty was plain old Janet (Rusty) Fields Having her first tattoo in 1961 – (which saw her put on a charge when her employers...

Krystyne the Kolorful who for many years appeared in the Guinness book of records as the world's most tattooed woman. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Curly Allen did her first professional tattoo of a butterfly on...

The Pathology Department of Tokyo University, has the largest collection of tattooed human skin in the world. Dr Masaichi Fukushi – Doctor of Medicine and founder of the tattooed skin collection that is housed in the...