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Draco Tattoo Design

A Nordic style dragon tangled above a Icelandic vegvisir symbol. Fit to coil and writhe around an arm or leg.

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Maeshowe Dragon Wolf Tattoo Design

Maeshowe is a neolithic chambered tomb located in Orkney, in far Northern Scotland. Built around 2800BC, 5,000 years ago. The most stunning of the stone carvings within is this mysterious chimera of a...

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Equity Knot Tattoo Design

A balanced Celtic protection knot and ring, a strong symbol for a teacher, here used to cover a regrettable "tribal" symbol long past its appreciation date.

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Hounds of Life Celtic Shield Tattoo Design

The Tree of Life in this tattoo is flanked by two protecting Irish Wolfhounds, with the entire knotting linked and interwoven with an oval border, making it an integrated shield.

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Celtic Rising Eagle Tattoo Design

The Eagle rises! A custom drawing of a knotwork-winged eagle to span her shoulderblades.This young woman of faith will be joining the Army soon, and asked for the inspirational Bible text 2 Corinthians...

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Running Hounds Band Celtic Tattoo Design

Dogs have always held an extremely important place in Celtic life and art. The Irish hunting hounds were exported worldwide as royal gifts for centuries, and they figure prominently in all the...

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Christogram Tattoo Design

A christogram tattoo, combining of the symbol for Christ, consisting of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P), with the Alpha and Omega, surrounded by these words in French: "Seigneur Jésus, Christ,...

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Rose Cross Celtic Tattoo Design

A custom request for three heraldic roses on an equal-armed Celtic cross, representing this father's three children, whose names he wrote out in ogham to encircle the design.

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Winchester Bible Medieval Dragon Tattoo Design

A wyvern dragon forming an illuminated letter "S" in the prologue to the Book of Jonah in the Winchester Bible, c.1150-90. The Bible is kept at the Winchester Cathedral Priory of Saint Swithun, and was...

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Humpty Dumpty Tattoo Design

The client who thought up this tattoo is a pro racing bike rider who got in a massive wreck and has a "7" shaped scar over the pins and metal bits in his shoulder, so we put this Humpty Dumpty in the...

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Honor Cross Celtic Tattoo Design

A cross designed for a police officer and military veteran. The central element is a triskle, the spiral triad, and the knotwork contains 4 hearts and Celtic symbols. A strong tattoo representing both...

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Celtic Polar Bear Tattoo Design

A fulfillment of a vision. This woman lost a trisomy baby at birth, and in dreams she comes back to her mother as a spirit bear, a loving polar bear. We placed her on a Celtic crescent moon, with...

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Oklahoma Wildflowers Tattoo Design

Designed for and with a plant botanist, a nosegay of the glorious wildflowers of the prairie lands of Oklahoma.

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All Saints Half Sleeve Tattoo Design

A representation of enduring faith. Three bands with embedded cross symbols joined to make a full forearm sleeve. The photos show the tattoo that had one band done 10 years before, then the top and...

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The Loving Tree Tattoo Design

A memorial for two beloved parents whose lives together were as two trees twined to become one. This daughter asked that we unite an apricot and a plum, and I encircled them with a Celtic knot work...

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Mercurial Spirals Tattoo Design

An evocative circle of spirals taken from the 6th century Book of Kells illuminated manuscript. The size of a dime in the original, greatly enlarged here to encompass the hip and onto the butt of a...

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Celtic Oak Green Man Tattoo Design

The spirit of the woods, a Celtic Green Man with woven knotwork beard and oak leaf hair. Representing the union of the primordial forest with the spirit of humankind.

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Pictish Spirals Wild Spirit Tattoo Design

With a central Trinity Knot as the stable core, this backpiece design of wild Pictish spirals is a study in asymmetry and the curling flow of smoke in air.

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Dragon Consorts

A memorial tattoo for a beloved wife, representing two people united for decades, since they were a teen romance, on the husband who could not figure out how to live without her. This week he committed...

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Celtic Four Dragon Band Tattoo Design

Four European dragons entwined in a knotted band that can be worn two ways, depending on which way the band is placed. The dragons can be looking away from each other or facing each other, depending on...

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