The rites — Hand Poke The fee, the day, the vows, the food not eaten and the words said over the needle. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/rites/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The words — Hand Poke The word each tradition uses, and what it means before it means tattoo. Most of them mean prick, strike or write. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/terms/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
The places — Hand Poke Villages, temples, quarters and museums where the work is done or the record is kept. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/places/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The painted ones — Hand Poke Spain called the Visayans *Pintados*, the painted ones, described their tattoos in detail, and converted them out of the practice within two centuries. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/pintados/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Words — Hand Poke Words — Hand Poke nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/words/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 56K
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
The leg-tattoo zone — Hand Poke One custom, four peoples, and a boundary that runs through the middle of modern Thailand rather than along its edge. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/legs/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
Sak kha lai — Hand Poke The Lanna leg tattoo: waist to knee, sometimes to the ankle, dense enough that the murals paint it as a pair of black trousers. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/sak-kha-lai/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 58K
Where the marks go — Hand Poke Each tradition here records which zones of the body it marks. Counted together, the zones sort into two kinds. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/body/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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
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