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2. Flash (tattoo) - Wikipedia

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   More tattoo artists started to work from shops as a full-time profession. [4] To fulfill increased demand for tattoos, especially sailor tattoos, artists bought and sold sets of pre-drawn designs. [6] These "flash" designs were on larger sheets of paper than sketchbook pages, intended to be framed and hung on walls. [4]

3. Tattoo - Wikipedia

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   Flash sheets are prominently displayed in many tattoo parlors for the purpose of providing both inspiration and ready-made tattoo images to customers. The Japanese word irezumi means "insertion of ink" and can mean tattoos using tebori , the traditional Japanese hand method, a Western-style machine or any method of tattooing using insertion of ink.

4. August Coleman - Wikipedia

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   August B. "Cap" Coleman (15 October 1884 – 20 October 1973) was an American tattoo artist. Dubbed "The Godfather of American Tattooing", Coleman's tattoo flash designs had a significant influence on his generation of tattooists, and inspired the likes of Franklin Paul Rogers and Sailor Jerry. [2]

5. Sailor Jerry - Wikipedia

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   At the time, it was the only place on the island where tattoo studios were located. His studio became China Sea Tattoo after his death. His earlier studios were at 434 South State Street, 150 North Hotel Street and 13 South Hotel Street. Collins developed tattoo designs with inspiration from sailor tattoos and Japanese tattoo imagery. [3]

6. Don Ed Hardy - Wikipedia

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   Hardy was born on January 5, 1945, in Des Moines, Iowa. [1] He grew up in Corona del Mar, in Newport Beach, California. [2] As a preteen a young Ed Hardy was interested in tattoos: one of his friends' fathers had Army tattoos, and it intrigued him so much that he took pens and colored pencils to draw on other neighborhood kids. [3]

7. Greg James (tattoo artist) - Wikipedia

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   The Tattoo Encyclopedia: A Guide to Choosing Your Tattoo (with Terisa Green, published by Simon & Schuster, 2003) - Greg illustrated hundreds of tattoo designs for this popular book, sold globally in four languages with 50,000 copies in print. It is perennially an Amazon Top 100 bestseller in Education & Reference > Encyclopedias > Art.

8. American traditional - Wikipedia

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   Tattoo design with a naval theme, c. 1900–1945. Many old school motifs derive from tattoos popular among military service members, including patriotic symbols, such as eagles and American flags, along with pin-up girls. [2] Other old school tattoo designs include: Mermaid; Swallow (sometimes confused with sparrows and bluebirds) Heart; Anchor ...

9. Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo - Wikipedia

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   The 2022 Edinburgh Military Tattoo pipes and drums. The term tattoo derives from a 17th-century Dutch phrase doe den tap toe ("turn off the tap") a signal to tavern owners each night, played by a regiment's Corps of Drums, to turn off the taps of their ale kegs so that the soldiers would retire to their billeted lodgings at a reasonable hour. [1]