The Tattoo Shop, UK suppliers of Tattoo Equipment

A-Z How to Tattoo Book

Price: £39.99   

145 page Tattoo Guide, known in the trade as the tattoo bible. It's excellent for tattooists of all abilities.

Illustrated A-Z to Tattooing by Huck Spaulding Essential if you want to learn tattooing, this 145 page sealed hard back book Includes: Machine set-up, needles, sterilization, stencils, outlining, shading, cover-ups and more.

TATTOO MACHINES AND THEIR SECRETS - Art Godoy

Price: £59.99   

XMAS OFFER NORMALLY £69.99

TATTOO MACHINES AND THEIR SECRETS-(Soft cover)-

Everything you need to know about machine building, tuning, maintenance, troubleshooting, repairing, understand screw threads, diagnose problems, learn to hotrod that old machine. Written in simple terms without the baffling electronic terminology.

Street Shop Stencils

Price: £24.99   

Learn the proper techniques in creating and applying a tattoo stencil through an illustrated step-by-step guide. A gallery of original illustrations created by the authors for their clients, displays the new direction of skin art from an artists perspective. This takes the reader on a journey of the designs in the street shop tattoo studio looking at Old School designs, New School, and New Old School styles that have driven tattoo design to a new level that combines styles to create new forms. Skulls, crosses, hearts, flames, knives, creatures, machines and adaptive designs are featured here.

Dragons Tattoo Book

Price: £24.99   

Brand New Spider Webb Book Excellent for custom work and inspiriation. 75 pages

Studying Horiyoshi 111

Price: £24.99   

Picking up where Bushido: Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo left off, join Horiyuki as she studies the art of Japanese tattooing with Master Horiyoshi III. Jill "Horiyuki" Mandelbaum takes you on a very candid firsthand account of her exploratiion. Follow her through text and over 270 colour photographs into the studios and home of Horiyoshi as well as the shrines and temples of Japan. Offering a bold, new, and very Western perspective to studying the Japanese tattoo, this book is a must have for anyone interested in tattoo arts and cross-cultural study. With a foreword by Takahiro "Horitaka" Kitamura, this book also features never before published photos of tattoos by Horiyoshi III.

Spider Webbs Classic Tattoo Flash

Price: £24.99   

Innovative artist Spider Webb has brought the traditional art of tattooing into the modern age, elevating the primitive or folk art iconography into modern art with startling interpretations. 400 colour and black and white tattoo flash, in two volumes, feature dragons and other mythological beasts, skulls, eagles, beautiful women, hearts, daggers, serpents, and tigers of the natural and supernatural worlds. Many tattoos may be seen as social and political commentary as well. Here is an opportunity to review a prolific artists work that people from around the globe have been happy to bear as permanent expressions of their inner lives. This book will be treasured by all who enjoy tattoo art.

Tattoo Butterfly Flash Book

Price: £24.99   

Hundreds of beautifully rendered butterflies by artist Spider Webb parade endless color and pattern variations in this portfolio of artistic inspirations. Both tattoo artists and graphic designers will find inspiration in these perforated pages, each a signed work of art, that you can remove and hang on the wall.

Excellent for custom work and inspiriation. 95 pages

Flash Dragons Tattoo Book

Price: £24.99   

Brand New Spider Webb Book Excellent for custom work and inspiriation. 80 pages

Japanese Tattooing Now Book

Price: £29.99   

Stories and Photos of masters of tattoo art including
Senseis Horihide, Horiyoshi 111, Horitoshi 1, Horiyasu and Horikoi.

175 pages

Tattooing from Japan to the West Book

Price: £29.99   

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How to tattoo DVD

Price: £9.99   

A great new budget dvd, full of hints and tips. Click for more information.

Introduction to Tattooing DVD

Price: £19.99   

XMAS OFFER NORMALLY £25.99

Better quality and more information than the cheaper "how to tattoo" dvd but it is more expensive. Covers everything from the equipment used to Tattoo (Tubes, Needles, Inks, etc.) on to sterilization, and the entire creation process of a tattoo. Suggestions on how to practice and loads of practical examples. (approx 50min)

Pro Set - All 11 Tattoo DVD's

Price: £199.99   

Full 11 DVD Set as above.

3 Set Tattoo DVD (Advanced)

Price: £74.99   

Advanced Lining, Shading and Colouring.

Tattoo Machine Maintenance and Tuning DVD

Price: £25.99   

Tattoo Machine set up.

Black and Grey Shading Tattoo DVD

Price: £24.99   

A must for those interested in Black and Grey Tattoo work.

Tattoo Restoration DVD

Price: £25.99   

How to re-work old tattoos.

Tattoo Cover-up DVD

Price: £24.99   

How to do cover ups.

Making and Using Mag Shaders DVD

Price: £24.99   

The art of Magnum work.

Bloodline Tattooing DVD

Price: £24.99   

Essential for Portraits etc.

Disclaimer Pads 100 Pack

Price: £5.99   

Essential for every tattooist who is working from home or a studio.
These are required by law, your customer needs to complete this before any work is started, this will insure you and the customer against any legal action.