Section
craft
3 stories
Issue 01 · By Mara Voss
Blackwork and the quiet ritual of the needle
In a basement studio in east London, the oldest craft in tattooing is being practised at its slowest. Blackwork demands patience, a steady hand and a willingness to sit in silence.
Issue 01 · By Jonas Adeyemi
The machine as instrument
A custom workshop in Berlin builds tattoo machines one coil at a time. Inside the obsessive world of the people who make the tools that make the work.
Issue 01 · By Sofia Lindqvist
Hand-poke, slow style
No machine, no coil, no buzz. Hand-poke tattooing is the oldest method and, lately, the most contemporary.