01/06/2026
✨ WOODCUT FARMING HISTORICAL SLEEVE ✨
I loved creating this piece! A huge thank you to my client for trusting me with such a historically rooted project. It was such a joy to bring together so many references and build this into a full sleeve. This tattoo is fully healed! This one was built from a collection of medieval and early Renaissance references, drawing from pastoral scenes, agricultural woodcuts, and folklore imagery spanning the 14th–16th centuries.
From foxes preaching to geese, shepherds tending flocks, sheep shearing, livestock pens, farming scenes, and strange creatures hidden in manuscript borders all found their way into this sleeve. A tattoo stitched together from centuries of storytelling, rural life, and the wonderfully odd world of medieval art.
Including references from:
• The Ploughman: Danse Macabre (1538)
• Opus Ruralium Commodorum (1300)
• Life in the Country (1517)
• Reynke de Vos (1498)
• Tityrus and Melibeus (1502)
• A Woman Milking a Cow (1491)
• Romance of the Rose (MS Douce 195) (1490)
By .ingram.tattoos 🧡
Done at The Scribble Shed Tattoo Studio 🌞
📍Kettering, Northamptonshire, England 🇬🇧
💕Inclusive Women-Led Studio 💕
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