After the former owner of Studio X Tattoo Company retired, artist Lynnlee Knott took ownership of the company. Last Fall, Knott and her business partner, Junior Dimas, renamed the shop Obsidian Ink.

Wielding a tattoo gun with his small hands, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a ...

Those sharp points act like the needle of a modern tattoo gun, only in this case the tattoo artist pushes the pigment into the person’s skin manually. Radiocarbon dating of the tools suggests ...