The most bother I’ve ever been in on-line, bombarded with indignant messages, was once I wrote disparagingly about tattoos. Fortunately this was on the daybreak of the web; my phrases as we speak would appeal to demise threats.
At this time physique artwork is mainstream, sported by an estimated 47 per cent of millennials. As a result of I’m woke now, I used to be fascinated to learn Tattoos and Standard Tradition, by Lee Barron, often called the professor of tattooing and a lecturer in design at Northumbria College.
What a wealth of random riches it contained. Otzi the iceman’s mummified physique (circa 3250BC) had 61 tattoos, about the identical quantity as Ed Sheeran. One thing referred to as the Tattoo Renaissance occurred within the late Nineteen Eighties, resulting in TV actuality reveals akin to Ink Grasp,
