Tattoos - Alice Wood

I think Fleur and I must have come from the same family (except grandfather with tatts!) as it was ingrained very early in my life that tattoos were not acceptable - and they still aren't. 
My piece obviously indicates this in the red 'No Human Tats' message whilst the green circles with a line through them represent, to me, acceptable tattoos - those being on domestic animals that have been desexed.  
Techniques used were bobbin work for the writing, french knots for the animals' tattoos and keeping with the theme of the less seen the better, I decided not to quilt tattoos on the piece.

The backing of my quilt is made using cream fabrics that has three different size blue dots on it to represent skin and indigo dyes that were traditionally used in early tattoos. 
It reminded me of a comment about tattoos by an English comic who now lives in Western Australia "Why do young girls get a tattoo of a cute little butterfly on their bums that in thirty years time will look like a bloody Jumbo jet?'