Tribal Tattoos
A tribal tattoo is a popular form of abstract art for the body. They are usually solid black however in recent years tattooists have started to use bold colours as well. Tribal tattoos are usually abstract designs or patterns often designed to fit the body. Although derived from some forms of ancient tribal art, tribal tattoos today have no significant meaning. Originally, to be counted as part of a specific tribe, one would have to have a permanent mark or identification made, the tribe's own mark, thus a tribal tattoo was given.
Common Spellings: Tribal Tattoos, Tribal Tatoos, Tribal Tattoes, Tribal Tattos, Tribal Tatoo.
Tribal Tattoo Links
- The Tribals Tattoo Network
- The Tribals Tattoo Network offers a variety of information and resources on tribal tattoos and other forms of the tattoo art. There are galleries of user's tattoos, and you can sign up to the web site for a low price to gain access to the sites tattoo forums. You can also upload your own tattoo to their gallery as well as tell your tattoo story, add your studio (if you have one!) or add your website.
- The site also offers a service for Kanji translation and also Hiragana and Katakana.
- Create A Tattoo
- Create a Tattoo offers an online application to create your own tribal tattoos. The site offers over 1000 templates and designs as your starting point. You can create your very own personalised tribal tattoo and then print it off, take it to either a tattoo artist or a temporary tattoo artist.
- Tribal-Sol
- Tribal Sol offers T'shirts with tribal tattoo designs silk screened onto heavy duty 100% cotten pre-shrunk t'shirts. The designs are originally drawn by the seller who is based in California. If you don't want to commit to a tattoo, these are the next best thing.
- Tribal Tattoos Photo Gallery
- This tribal tattoos photo gallery has over 630 pages of photos of tribal tattoos being worn, with up to 16 photos per page.
- Rank My Tattoos - Tribal Tattoos
- The tribal tattoos section of the website Rank My Tattoos, offers information on tribal tattoos, Maori tattoos, armband tattoos and the symbolism that tribal tattoos give. The site also offers you the option to upload your own tattoo for others to vote on it, you can also view and vote or rank other people's tattoos too.
- History of Tribal Tattoos
- This section from Tao of Tattoos gives you a short run down of the history and influences behind the tribal tattoo.
- Tribal Tattoos
- Tribal-Tattoos.net provides high quality tattoo designs from various artists. These free tattoo designs are available for use with no permission required. There is also an accompanying forum for the web site where people can upload photos of their tattoo if they have gotten the image from the web site along with the opportunity to request a particular style too.
