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Printable Tattoo Designs

by: TimPainter
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For thousands of years people of different cultures have enjouyed and made use of tattoos. Mummified bodies in from ancient Egypt have marks which suggest they had tattoos and these days it is considered quite normal for both young men and women and even older men and woment to have tattoos.

The origins of the word tattoo are thought to have arrived from sailors who had been to Tahiti where a similar word is used to mean a mark. The european sailors discovered that Polynesians and native American Indians were frequently covered in tattoos whereas in Europe the art had almost died out.

Everybody who gets a tattoo has their own reasons for doing so but these days it is mostly for decoration. The Roman Empire used tattoos to designate status for cerain groups of society. Criminals and slaves had tattoos which showed their status to warn others not to treat them with the respect a freeman would be entitled to.

The idea with a tattoo is to puncture the skin and then fill the puncture with ink which remains under the skin. This used to be done by simply pricking the skin with some sharp object and then rubbing ink into the puncture to create the design. These days tattoo equipment can inject the pigment with a needle.

The tattooist was always an artist but he could only give you designs that he had experience of doing in the past or had thought of himself. With the development of the internet this has changed and you can now download thousands of printable tattoo designs to choose the one you like best. Once you have made your choice you can print it out on any printer and take it along to your local tattoo artist who can copy it onto whichever part of your body you choose.

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There is more information about printable tattoo designs at www.tattoodesignsspot.com and also view some designs

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