The people — Hand Poke Practitioners, and the outsiders who wrote the tradition down — which is not the same list. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/people/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Chin facial tattooing — สักด้วยมือ 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/th/tradition/chin-ming/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 58K
The instruments — Hand Poke Brass rods, bamboo splints, boar tusk combs, thorn bundles and bone needles — what they are made of and how long they are. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tools/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Konyak marks — Hand Poke Nagaland and across the Myanmar border: chest and face marks a man received for taking a head. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/konyak-naga/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Sak yant — Hand Poke Letters, numbers and figures arranged into a diagram — *yant* — and pricked into skin with a long needle. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/sak-yant/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 57K
The keepers — Hand Poke Museums, archives, collectives and the studios that teach the hand method now. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/keepers/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Hajichi — Hand Poke The Ryukyu Islands: marks on the backs of women's hands, outlawed by Japan in 1899 and now being put back on. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/hajichi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
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
Kakiniit — Hand Poke Inuit tattoos: women's work on women's skin, stitched with a sooted thread drawn under the skin, or poked. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/kakiniit/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
The needle now — Hand Poke Single-use needles, gloves and an autoclave are the difference between a hand tradition in 1882 and the same hand tradition today. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/issue/the-needle-now/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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