BODIES ADORNED

BODIES ADORNED

Make your own tattoo designs on fabric dolls.

Though some of us like ourselves just the way we are, many people wish to have a body modification to improve their looks. The tradition of body adornment is very ancient and can be found in many cultures. Tattoo is one of the ways to show one's individuality, to state a rite of passage, or signal cultural, tribal, and religious association. Many ancient Egyptian mummies had tattoos. The most well-known examples of tattooing come from Polynesia, Arctic, and Indo-Pacific areas. Many indigenous cultures required wearing a tattoo. Inuit were the first people known to modern Europeans as wearing extensive tattoos. However, six thousand years ago Otzi, a native of the Swiss Alps already had 61 beautiful tattoos. Later on, as the Age of Discovery launched many ships to sail the South Seas, Maori people, Samoans, and natives of New Guinea…