In years past, our ancestors wore tattoos to mark a family achievement, to memorialize special occasions like marriage and child birth, to identify tribe members, to protect against enemies and misfortune, and to celebrate victory in battle.
Today, men and women wear tattoos to reflect their individuality. Bold statements, these new tribal tattoos are rooted in historic and cultural sources.

Inside Modern Tribal Tattoos, you'll find black work patterns that incorporate large solid areas with fine line accents, motif ideas, including totems and talismans, free-form designs based on long curved lines and fine delicate line work. Repeating elements, like triangles, spirals, suns and lines are also included to enhance large patterns. Bold triangle lines, spiked spirals, ragged curved lines, barb-wire - these make up today's favorite designs, and are included here.

Each design includes the attributes or meaning associated with it like:
-Love and Affection
-Bravery and Courage
-Family
-Friendship
-Independence
-Protection
-Strength and much more

These high-quality patterns, from renowned artist and best-selling author of Great Book of Tattoos, Lora S. Irish, are ready to be replicated by your tattoo artist, or personalized for your next craft project. Define who you are!

Lora Irish is an artist who runs an internet carving studio with her husband at www.carvingpatterns.com. She is a frequent contributor to Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts and Wood Carving Illustrated and the author of Great Book of Dragon Patterns, Great Book of Fairy Patterns, Great Book of Tattoo Designs, Great Book of Woodburning, and Wood Spirits and Green Men. She lives in Mt. Airy, Maryland.

I found both the Modern Tribal Tattoo and 101 Artistic Relief Patterns to be an inspiring collection of designs, for both within and beyond their intended medium. To be sure, there were a number of patterns particularly in Lora Irish's book that could easily be applied as a decorative element to the ceramic surface, whether brushed or carved! In fact, it would be lovely to see a book that describes the techniques of creating these designs in clay as well!

Once more, all of us potters here at the Bamboushay studio were delighted to find fresh ideas for our surface decoration, especially from such an unexpected resource as tattoo and wood carving designs. We all thank you from the bottom of our hearts, and would certainly be happy to share in the same way should have any further inquiries into the world of clay!

New tattoo designs are created all the time. But always inspired by the past.
This just released book is a compilation of interesting designs inspired by many different cultural sources. Totems, talismans, free-form, repetitive graphics. In this book, you should find all the resources you need to make your choice. And before you commit you can even check on the meaning associated with the attributes of each tattoo. 112 pages.

Nationally known artist Lora S. Irish is the author of a new book, Modern Tribal Tattoo Designs (Fox Chapel Publishing, $14.95, U.S. , paperback). The book offers readers a collection of neo-tribal designs that shows many of the qualities that artists look for in their designs, such as love, strength, and loyalty. Irish includes a variety of tattoo types, from fine-line henna designs and moifs, to free form and large black designs.

Designs for the back, armbands, shoulders and chest, as well as elements that can be combined to create your own unique tattoo are also included. Readers can even get instructions and graph paper needed to make a tribal design from the book. This book is perfect for the tattoo aficionado, artist or anyone looking to make a statement.

Nationally known artist Lora S. Irish is the author of a new book, Modern Tribal Tattoo Designs (Fox Chapel Publishing, $14.95, U.S. , paperback). The book offers readers a collection of neo-tribal designs that shows many of the qualities that artists look for in their designs, such as love, strength, and loyalty. Irish includes a variety of tattoo types, from fine-line henna designs and moifs, to free form and large black designs.

Designs for the back, armbands, shoulders and chest, as well as elements that can be combined to create your own unique tattoo are also included. Readers can even get instructions and graph paper needed to make a tribal design from the book. This book is perfect for the tattoo aficionado, artist or anyone looking to make a statement.

Abatement to the popularity of tribal is nowhere to be seen and no doubt many tattooists are always seeking pastures new when it comes to inspiration. Step forward "Modern Tribal Tattoo Designs", a compact publication that explores everything from blackwork to freeform and neotribal, with well in excess of one hundred pages of content provided. Lora Irish has gone to some painstaking trouble in the composition of this book and she manages to step outside the realms of the trite and
overdone patterns that are often encountered, resulting in many intricate and interesting motifs.

The opening pages provide a truly a excellent tutorial in how to approach the creation of custom designs and this would have been a great theme to continue further into the book, especially for any tattooists who are not too au fait with the
composition and form of tribal and desire something more original to work with. Overall this is a great tool and you'll be hard pressed to find another reference source as cheap and varied as this one.