depictionThe stencil book
แบบสักยันต์สำหรับลอกลาย
A Thai book of yant designs, for tracing
What it is
A volume in the corpus this site counted is exactly what its title says: yant patterns for tattooists to trace.
The long version
Its first page reads แบบสักยันต์ · แบบยันต์ต่างๆ · สำหรับช่างสัก — tattoo-yant patterns, various yant patterns, for tattooists. The plates are columns of Khom-script medallions under finials, birds facing each other into a heart shape, script down both sides.
Inference — the existence of a tracing book is the same fact as the Burmese sample book and the Bornean carved block: the repertoire is stored outside anybody's head, and it is stored in the form that transfers to skin.
Connected to
- Sak yant The tradition.
- The design block The same idea.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | field | ||
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there