The open questions — Hand Poke Questions this site cannot settle: whose designs, whose hands, whose photographs, and what counts as hand-poked at all. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/questions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Batok — Hand Poke The Philippine traditions, tapped with a hafted thorn at ninety to a hundred and twenty strikes a minute. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/batok/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
The Ukok Plateau — Hand Poke The high plateau on the Russian–Chinese–Mongolian frontier where frozen Pazyryk burials preserved tattooed skin. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/ukok/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The inks — Hand Poke Soot, charcoal, indigo, gall and cinnabar — and what they were mixed with before they went in. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/inks/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Truhelka and Glück — Hand Poke The two men who recorded Bosnian sicanje in the 1890s: Ćiro Truhelka, who illustrated the designs, and Leopold Glück, who published the paper. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/truhelka-gluck/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K