The magnificent henna hand-painting patterns of the Hindu and Arabic cultures are the inspiration for this delicate and feminine floral tattoo design

It makes a bold graphic tattoo statement that demands the wearer be given respect

To the Anglo-Saxons the birds embodied strength and courage and they believed that those carrying these symbols into battle would inherit these virtues

in East Yorkshire

The center nose-piece of an ancient Saxon war helmet found in a burial mound in England was decorated with this dramatic and complicated Celtic knotwork

Duality Double Disc Celtic Pictish Tattoo Design fire The magnificent henna hand-painting patternsThe Pictish double disc is here represented with a melding of cultures, filled with spirals from an ancient Irish metalwork, spirals from a Viking stone, and joined by spirals from the Scottish Shandwick stone.