Ajarn Dang and Ajarn Sak
อาจารย์แดง และ อาจารย์เสก
Two of the Chiang Mai masters whose published profiles give a teacher, a temple, and a count of years in and out of the robe.
The people
Practitioners, and the outsiders who wrote the tradition down — which is not the same list.
{'name': 'Practitioner', 'th': 'ผู้สัก'}
Rabali
The Fijian tattooist recorded as still working between 1908 and 1910, when she was the only one left.
Saya Chein
A Burmese tattooist named in passing in 1882 — the only working *saya* of the period this site can put a name to.
The Sulu'ape line
The Samoan master-tattooist titles, held in two families, and carried into the present by name.
Whang-od Oggay
daryl duhay · CC BY 2.0The Kalinga *mambabatok* everyone has heard of, tapping in Buscalan since she was about fifteen.
{'name': 'Recorder', 'th': 'ผู้บันทึก'}
Leslie Milne
The ethnographer who lived among the northern Shan and published the leg-tattoo account this site leans on.
Shway Yoe
The Scottish administrator who wrote the fullest English description of Burmese tattooing, under a Burmese pen name, in 1882.
Truhelka and Glück
The two men who recorded Bosnian sicanje in the 1890s: Ćiro Truhelka, who illustrated the designs, and Leopold Glück, who published the paper.
{'name': 'Reviver', 'th': 'ผู้รื้อฟื้น'}
Hovak Johnston
The Inuvialuk woman whose project took the kakiniit off the archive shelf and back onto skin, learning the stitch from elders.