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Lexicon - Vocabulary: a language user's knowledge of words Dictionary: a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
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What is this Project All About?
Welcome to Teach Me To Tattoo – Online Wiki, a dynamic and ever changing lexicon of tattoo terminology. User created and user modified. The tattoo industry is rapidly evolving, and the terminology utilized in the industry is a vast “word-of-mouth” jumble of phrases. Some of these words and phrases are pretty basic and have minimal variations; however some words and phrases have multiple meanings. What one artist calls a “front-spring” another might call a “timing-spring”. It is because each of us was trained or “apprenticed” by a different person, and because of the lacking in formal tattoo training that we have decided to build this wiki.
Anyone can edit the pages, and we hope that professional artists will join in across the world, and help normalize or standardize the vocabulary of the tattoo trade.
What can you expect to get out of this site?
This site is not meant as a guide, and it will not teach you to tattoo at all. Even our main site’s name “Teach Me To Tattoo” is actually misleading. That is because you cannot be taught to tattoo simply by reading a few websites, or books. You can’t even learn to properly tattoo from a DVD or VHS tape. You must do an apprenticeship to learn the proper way to tattoo. The purpose of Teach Me To Tattoo is to get the knowledge that should be common place for every tattoo artist in the open, and perhaps excel the quality of the tattoo trade as a whole. There are so many artists who tattoo (some even own shops or studios) that cannot even tune a tattoo machine or make tattoo needles. If there was some sort of consolidated database where every artist could share his experiences and information, then perhaps the learning curve would change and ultimately the quality of tattoo across the world would increase.
Can I ask a Question on the Wiki?
No! You can search for topics, and contribute to pages on the Wiki. If you want to ask a question then check out the forum. You can find the forum at: TMTT Open Forum
Who should contribute?
Not Everyone should be posting / editing these entries!
You will find all different skill levels of tattoo artists in the forum[1] – but the wiki is different. We would like to request that only artists who know what they are talking about contribute to this site. This site is open to the public like many other wiki sites, but please help us keep this information pertinent and accurate. We know that there are not a whole lot of tattoo related text books out there that discuss theory and technique, but there are a few that can be sited - so please try to site what you can with good references.
Thank you for contributing.
TMTT [2] Staff
