Pictish Warrior Tattoo Design salmon Drawn from a photograph

Drawn from a photograph

To early peoples the world over

making a strong statement of ethnic pride

and this beautiful pattern was designed specifically for that placement

A tattoo for a human connected to the life in the waters

Pictish Warrior Tattoo Design salmon Drawn from a photographAn example of the way the sacred spirals of the Celts were once painted onto the skin with woad before battle, a perfect way to add large area coverage in color. While we cannot know exactly what tattoos the woad warriors would have worn, we can surmise that they would have copied the spirals found on contemporary stone carvings, all that we now have left to document the mysterious race of the Picts.