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Celtic knot, thistle and flower tattoo The ancient Celtic art was made up of intricately designed interlacing patterns, elaborate knotwork, spirals, and animal forms.  The early Celts displayed their Celtic design mostly in metals consisting of jewelry, weapons, pottery, etc. Celtic knots are typically complete loops that are never ending unless they end with an animal form, as at the head, limb, or tail of a particular animal, such as a jaguar.  This is also known as the zoomorphic aspect of Celtic traditional tattoo design. The repeated crossing of the physical and spiritual are displayed in the interlacing of the knots.  The continuious path of the strands reflect the permanence and continuum of life, love and spiritual growth. Celtic woad tattoo design The tattoo design to the right is of a Celtic woad.  A woad is a European plant, in the mustard family, formerly cultivated for a blue dye extracted from it's leaves. Celtic cross tattoo design "The Irish Catholic ...

This musically inspired tattoo design is just awesome!! I really like the imagination this tattoo shows. The tattoo design on this gentleman's shoulder and chest is an angel amidst some roses.  The colors in this artwork are terrific. Crazy Tattoo Designs has tens of thousands of remarkably striking tattoo designs to browse and select from .

The 58 markings archaeologists found on the knees, back and ankles of Otzi "Iceman",  a 5,000 year-old mummified body, places the origins of tattoos at around 3000 B.C.  Iceman, found in a glacier in 1991 on a mountain between Austria and Italy, remains the best-preserved Bronze Age corpse ever discovered, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Across Europe, archaeologists have found bone needles and clay discs believed to have been used for used for tattooing during the Upper Paleolithic (3800 B.C. to 10000 B.C.) period. Otzi had tattooed on him a cross, six straight lines 15 centimeters long above the kidneys, and numerous small parallel lines along the lumbar, legs and ankles indicating possible therapeutic tattoos (treatment of arthritis via acupuncture). Tattooing in the Western world is thought to have been introduce by Sir Martin Frobisher of Harwich, England.  In 1577, Frobisher. along with 3 ships and 120 men set off on a voyage to find a north west passage to China...

Crab Tattoo Design Here is an awesome looking crab tattoo design.  I am quite sure there were a number of sittings to get this done.  Nice artwork!

Here is a nice shot of an attractive girl with quite a bit of body art.                                   Their are great colors in her tattoo designs.