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ARTISTVarious Artists
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PAGES448
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BINDINGHardcover
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SIZE12" x 9"
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WEIGHT5.8 lbs
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CONTENTAcetate Stencils
Classic Tattoo Stencils 2 picks up where Cliff White's first acetate volume left off. White, a Long Island tattoo shop owner and longtime collector of tattoo memorabilia, dug through thousands more pieces to assemble this second set, focused on acetate tattoo stencils cut and used in shops during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Across 448 pages you get the working end of the trade: the scratched acetates tattooers pressed onto skin to transfer a design before the first line went in. Devils and Grim Reapers, koi and scorpions, swallows carrying name ribbons, flowers and dozens of other standards appear as they were actually drawn for daily use, not cleaned up for display.
For tattooers working in a traditional style, these tattoo stencils are a direct look at how mid-century designs were simplified, spaced and built to read on skin. For collectors, it is a heavy, well-made document of an era of street shop tattooing that rarely survives in this quantity. Pair it with Volume 1 for the full set.
