The Tattoo Encyclopedia – Terisa Green

I chose to review this book from my collection first, in relation to the other articles published and purely because it is a fantastic book to begin learning about the vast array of tattoo imagery that plasters tattoo studios. For those that opt for a ‘flash’ design (i.e. a design that has already been drawn, printed, laminated, sold and displayed for tattooists to use as a means of a ready, ‘instant’ design that does not necessarily need altering) – this book is a useful tool in helping to choose a design, and even giving a small amount of information about the history, relation and common reason for choosing the particular image etc. The book has been well laid out, in a handy A-Z format, also cross-referenced, indexed, and illustrated with three hundred View the rest of this article