{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "poke",
 "type": "method",
 "names": {
  "name": "Poke",
  "th": "แทง",
  "said": "One point, pushed in by the hand that holds it"
 },
 "region": [
  "worldwide"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "poke"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A point held in the hand and pushed into the skin, once per mark, with the pigment carried on or into the hole.",
  "story": "The hand does the work: it provides the force, the depth and the rhythm. A poked line is a row of punctures close enough to read as continuous — Shway Yoe's description of the Burmese method is exactly that, \"a series of punctures close together, forming what afterwards fades into a rough line.\"\n\nThe tool can be a thorn, a fish bone, a sewing needle, a sharpened bamboo splint or a two-foot weighted brass rod. What makes it poking is that nothing strikes the tool and nothing drives it but the hand.",
  "how": "Depth is the whole skill. Too shallow and the mark leaves with the skin; too deep and the pigment spreads under it and the line thickens with age."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ปลายแหลมในมือ แทงลงผิวหนังทีละครั้ง โดยมีสีติดไปกับรูที่แทง",
  "story": "มือเป็นผู้ให้แรง ความลึก และจังหวะ เส้นที่ได้คือรอยแทงถี่ๆ ที่ชิดกันจนอ่านเป็นเส้นเดียว ตรงตามที่เชวโยบรรยายวิธีของพม่าไว้"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "tap",
   "as": "The one it gets confused with, and the one that does the striking for you.",
   "rel": "method"
  },
  {
   "to": "what-counts",
   "as": "Where the line between them stops being clear.",
   "rel": "issue"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:shway-yoe",
  "s:wp-stick-and-poke"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:shway-yoe"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "start-here"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "machine",
   "type": "method",
   "name": "Machine",
   "as": "What it replaced, and what it named."
  },
  {
   "from": "tap",
   "type": "method",
   "name": "Tap",
   "as": "The sibling method, and the one this site is named for."
  },
  {
   "from": "what-counts",
   "type": "issue",
   "name": "What counts as hand-poked",
   "as": "One."
  }
 ]
}