The tattoo is clothing — Hand Poke Sources in Burmese, Northern Thai, Spanish and Samoan — and a Cordilleran rule recorded in English — reach for the same comparison: the tattoo is not on the body, it is what the… nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/clothing/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
Kengtung — Hand Poke The eastern Shan town that sits in the middle of the leg-tattoo zone, and in the middle of the Tai world the zone is drawn on. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/kengtung/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Uhi — Hand Poke A chisel of albatross bone hafted to a handle and struck with a mallet, cutting a groove that the pigment fills. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/uhi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The Ukok woman — Hand Poke A Pazyryk woman buried on the Ukok Plateau, preserved in ice for about 2,400 years, with animal designs on her skin. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/ice-maiden/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The designs — Hand Poke What the marks are of, what they are said to do, and which ones have to be earned. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/designs/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Stitch — Hand Poke A needle carrying a thread blackened with soot, drawn through the skin so the line of pigment stays where the thread passed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/method/stitch/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Mandalay — Hand Poke Upper Burma's capital until 1885, and the centre of the country whose men were, in Shway Yoe's account, all tattooed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/mandalay/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The lettered square — Hand Poke A grid of letters or numerals, read as a formula rather than as a picture. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/mystic-square/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Nomi — Hand Poke A wooden rod with a group of needles bound to the end in silk, pushed at a shallow angle rather than straight down. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/nomi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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