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Along with barbed wire, spiderwebs have long been the go-to filler for knees and elbows – or to play frame or canvas for more detailed imagery – but now fencing is never more than a scroll away on the Gram. Perfect as a gritty backdrop, or gateway to breakthrough, fencing can be rawly etched in…

Gleb Kirillov, better know on Instagram as Novocainerascal, hand-poked his palm last month with the lyrics from Ninh Inch Nail’s Hurt. Palm tattoos are notoriously painful and hand-poke tattoos take time. So Parloir wondered why the fuck Gleb did it. Was he a diehard Nails fan, or perhaps he got overcome by the version the…

Simon Erl’s interest in the occult and all things dark is evident in his work which is spellbindingly good and lingers like a curse on the subconscious. The MVL Tattoo Leeds artist – who occasionally also works from Dharma Tattoo in London – learnt the trade in New Zealand and has been inking those with…

Welcome to Parloir where tattooing will get the platform and attention it deserves in an editorial project that aims to mirror its mechanics and get beneath the skin to leave a permanent mark. In-depth features will reveal the real-lives of artists’ like never before, shop inceptions and histories will be recorded and current happenings and…

A court is set to decide the fate of what is thought to be the world’s oldest remaining tattoo shop still in its original location that has left its mark on sailors and Kings. Tattoo Ole has operated from the basement of a house in Copenhagen’s Nyhavn since 1884 but may be forced to close…