History of Tattoo

The origins of the first tattoos date back 5000 Years and had a therapeutic, ornamental, protective or identifying role. Disappeared from the West between the 9th and 18th centuries, it returns around 1770 on the Old Continent thanks to James Cook who brought back the "Tattoo" from his travels in the Pacific Islands. From sailors to criminals, via a few crowned heads, tattooing became relatively popular until the end of the Second World War before resurfacing around the 1970s in marginal and protest circles. Today, the tattoo revives its origins, and regains its letters of nobility by rediscovering its therapeutic virtues, as by bringing a protective symbolism or a purely ornamental side.