The design block — Hand Poke Not a needle: a carved wooden block, inked and printed onto the skin, so the tattooist follows a line instead of remembering one. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/design-block/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Sicanje — Hand Poke Bosnia: Catholic girls' forearms and hands marked with crosses, circles and fences, pricked with soot and honey. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/sicanje/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
Stick and poke — Hand Poke The one everybody has seen: a needle, ink, no machine — punk kitchens, prisons, and now studios that do nothing else. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/stick-and-poke/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
What counts as hand-poked — Hand Poke The site is called hand poke and half the traditions on it do not poke. Here is the line it draws and why the line is arguable. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/issue/what-counts/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Atayal ptasan — Hand Poke Taiwan: a band down the forehead, and a second mark earned — by a man for taking a head, by a woman for mastering the loom. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/atayal-ptasan/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Veiqia — Hand Poke Fiji: girls marked at puberty by older women called *dauveiqia*, paid in tapa cloth and whale teeth. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/veiqia/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Ainu anchi-piri — Hand Poke Hokkaido and Sakhalin: a woman's mouth ringed with indigo, begun in childhood and widened until she was ready to marry. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/ainu-anchi-piri/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
The pilgrim's cross — Hand Poke Jerusalem and Egypt: a cross on the inside of the wrist, marking a pilgrimage — and a family that has been doing it for around seven hundred years. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/coptic-pilgrim/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
Tap — Hand Poke A needle or a comb of needles fixed at a right angle to a handle, and a second piece of wood striking the handle to drive it in. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/method/tap/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K