Words — Hand Poke Words — Hand Poke nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/words/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 56K
Irezumi — Hand Poke Japan: needles bound with silk to a wooden rod, worked by hand — *tebori*, carving by hand — over years, in a design that covers the body like a garment. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/irezumi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
The Cordilleran mummies — Hand Poke Mummified Cordilleran people in cave and hanging-coffin burials, tattooed, with the designs also carved on the coffins. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/cordilleran-mummies/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The stencil book — Hand Poke A volume in the corpus this site counted is exactly what its title says: yant patterns for tattooists to trace. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/art/stencils/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Chin facial tattooing — Hand Poke Women's faces, marked between fifteen and twenty, in a pattern that names the tribe: full-face, part-face, dots, lines, or both. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/chin-ming/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 56K
The sample book — Hand Poke A book of drawings a Burmese tattooist carried, so the boy could pick his figures and their positions before the work started. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/art/sample-book/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K