I want to remind everyone that there is a tattoo wiki in the works - and it is ONLINE now and it is free - even if you didn't buy the book Basic Fundamentals of Modern Tattoo.
What is this Project All About?
Welcome to Teach Me To Tattoo – Online Wiki, a dynamic and ever changing lexicon of tattoo terminology. User created and user modified. The tattoo industry is rapidly evolving, and the terminology utilized in the industry is a vast “word-of-mouth” jumble of phrases. Some of these words and phrases are pretty basic and have minimal variations; however some words and phrases have multiple meanings. What one artist calls a “front-spring” another might call a “timing-spring”. It is because each of us was trained or “apprenticed” by a different person, and because of the lacking in formal tattoo training that we have decided to build this wiki.
Anyone can edit the pages, and we hope that professional artists will join in across the world, and help normalize or standardize the vocabulary of the tattoo trade.
What can you expect to get out of this site?
This site is not meant as a guide, and it will not teach you to tattoo at all. Even our main site’s name “Teach Me To Tattoo” is actually misleading. That is because you cannot be taught to tattoo simply by reading a few websites, or books. You can’t even learn to properly tattoo from a DVD or VHS tape. You must do an apprenticeship to learn the proper way to tattoo. The purpose of Teach Me To Tattoo is to get the knowledge that should be common place for every tattoo artist in the open, and perhaps excel the quality of the tattoo trade as a whole. There are so many artists who tattoo (some even own shops or studios) that cannot even tune a tattoo machine or make tattoo needles. If there was some sort of consolidated database where every artist could share his experiences and information, then perhaps the learning curve would change and ultimately the quality of tattoo across the world would increase.
Can I ask a Question on the Wiki?
No! You can search for topics, and contribute to pages on the Wiki. If you want to ask a question then check out the forum. You can find the forum at: TMTT Open Forum
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