This section presents information about traditional tattooing. Through this page you can learn about tattooing techniques as well as procedure for tattooing.
The procedure for tattooing may differ from one country to another just like their cultures and languages. And each country might have a different method of applying tattoos.
The people of some tribal societies in order to create tattoos firstly cut the designs into the skin and then put ink, ashes or other coloring agents into the wounds. At the same time the people of some other cultures create tattoos by beating ink into the skin with the help of sharpened sticks or animal bones.
The traditional method of tattooing art is known as ’Irezumi’ in Japan. In this traditional method the Japanese make tattoos by hand poking i.e. by inserting the ink under the skin with the help of non-electrical, hand-made and hand held tools with needles made of sharpened bamboo or steel at its one end.
In modern times the most common and popular method of tattooing is that in which the electric tattooing machines are used. These tattoo machines have not only simplified the art of tattooing but also made it very easy. In the modern method the tattooing machines insert ink into the skin by way of needles that are soldered onto a bar, which is attached to an oscillating unit. The tattooing needles go and come out of skin hundreds of times per minute and thus create the desired designs of tattoos.
However these machines cause pain and injury in the process of creating tattoos. There is also high risk of transmission of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis associated with this method of tattooing. It is true that the tattoo machines are very popular today but for certain reasons they are not used everywhere in the world.
