Tattoo Pyramids
US $3.50
The history of the art of tattooing goes back thousands of years approximately 20.0 years before Christ. to the Stone Age. Tattooing has occurred in ancient times in cultures that were more advanced, such as the Old African (Old Kingdom) African Egyptian, Chinese, Mayans, Aztecs, Greeks and Romans. Today it is still occurring in societies around the world who have been doing that for eons of time as the Polynesians, Native Americans and tribes in the Amazon rainforest still use art tattoo body as part of their daily lives. For millennia, people have used tattoos as a ritual for religious ceremonies and rights of passage to adulthood in both men women. It was used as a symbol of one's status in society within families and the neighboring tribes.
It was also used for protection to prevent diseases, evil spirits and negative energies and to beautify the body. In South Asia women use tattoos to indicate a particular skill, by being placed on the forearm. Some of the oldest tattoos found in Egypt before and during the time of building the Great Pyramids.
The mate tattoo machine was invented by Thomas Edison in America. It was at first intended to be used as a recording device, but in 1891, Reilly Samuel O 'Edison rediscovered this machine could be modified and used to introduce ink into the skin, which was later patented a system of tubes and needles provide an ink reservoir.
Nearly one hundred years the tattoo was frowned upon by the upper classes in the United States, because the average person might getting a tattoo and the tattoo was considered of poor quality, and uncivilized. At that time people who had tattoos were considered unclean, immoral, and transients who worked in circuses and freak shows from one place to another.
Tattooing was reintroduced into Western society by Lyle Tuttle a tattoo artist who opened a tattoo studio in San Francisco for over 50 years. In the 1960s, tattooed celebrities of the era, such as Henry Fonda, Janis Joplin and Jane Fonda. Also has worked as an instructor teaching tattoo body art throughout the world. It is seen as a master and a legend in the industry of tattooing and body art is now retired.
Today, the art of tattooing the body is more popular than ever. Become even more popular by the current celebrities in the media. People of all races, ages, classes and backgrounds, are tattooed. I think the combination of traditional methods of personal creativity tattoo tattoo artist kept this one, and the trend exceptional art form alive and well, for a very long time.
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Marty "Riet" McEwen - Black 13 Tattoo apprentice - Graffiti