The history of tattoo

Tattoos have a rich history of tradition, dating back thousands and thousands of years. 
Throughout the course of time, there has always been an important role of tradition and ritual behind tattoos. In the past, women in Borneo used tattoo to mark their skills.
Tattoos were also used in the past as a way to ward away illnesses and disease by placing the tattoo around the fingers and on the wrist. 
Throughout history, tattoos have also been used to symbolize a clan or society as well.
The purpose of tattoos has different from culture to culture throughout the course of time. Researched shown that tattoos had been used in Egypt in pyramidstime. Egyptians used tattoo to mark the slaves and peasant.
Around 2000 BC tattoos spread to China and then Greece.
Along the way, Japan also incorporated the use of tattoos as well.
Japaneese used tattoos in religious and ceremonial rites. Borneo women was the artists. They produced the designs that indicated the individuals point in life and the tribe that he was affiliated with.
Tattoos was very popular these days, but infections was very common.

In western, the tattoos wasn't accepted at first. A man called William Dampher, was the man who re-itroduced tattoos. During the year 1961, he brought a heavily tattooed prince to the area, showing off his tattoos with exhibitions. He earned a lot of money after this attractions. This "stunt" made tattoos popular and well desired to London and areas around. Before then, it was nearly 600 years since tattoos had been witnessed in the area.
Chatham Square in New York City, was the first placed who featured American styled tattoos. Chatham Square attracted people from all over the United states. Especially those with a lot of money.
A man by the name Samuel O-Riley set up shop in Chatham Sqaure. He was the first who used a tattoo-gun. In the beginning, the now popular tattoo gun was based on Thomas Edison’s electric pin that used a needle point to puncture paper.
The electric tattoo gun features moving coils, a needle bar and tube, which are common components of today’s guns.
The electric gun was very popular, allowing those who wanted a tattoo to get one at a great price. 
These guns helped to revolutionize tattoos and allowed the tattoo artists to give tattoos fairly fast as well. 
People took to this new technology in flocks, making it by far the best and most efficient ways to get tattoos.

During the late 1960s, tattoos really began to take off.  They were featured in magazines, television,
and talked about everywhere. 
These days, tattoos are very common,
with nearly ½ of the population in the United States having at least one tattoo. 
They are still common with bikers and clans, symbolizing that one is a member. 
There are millions of designs out there for tattoos –
including different color combinations that have helped to make tattoos the phenomenon they are today.