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The History of Tattooing in Canada
It’s a multi-layered, overlapping timeline of pioneering efforts by outsider artists at a time when society deemed the craft repulsive, criminal, and deviant. It’s an elaborate black hole of first-hand stories and tall tales embellished by time and crusty raconteurs.
And as surely as they were pioneers, they were birthed into a dark craft practiced by their mentors and heroes, men with mysterious and wildlife stories mostly lost to time. Like pirates, their legacy is fabled.
Who were these titans on the vanguard, pushing a sailor’s folk art to become a custom craft we take for granted today? Before the Insta-famous tattoo influencer, decades before the explosion of tattoo tv and globally recognized tattoo artists, a few dedicated practitioners were living on the fringe, bringing their creativity to an ancient medium and exploring its possibilities.
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