Pictish Warrior Tattoo Design wolf An amazingly complex spiral panel

An amazingly complex spiral panel from the Shandwick Stone

The pattern will come without his stag and family motto

A tattoo design for a man whose link to his Celtic heritage calls up visions of a stronger

the jewelry of the bravest

A celebration of the Celtic warrior spirit in a tattoo design as timeless as the ancient illuminated manuscripts from which it was taken

Pictish Warrior Tattoo Design wolf An amazingly complex spiral panelAn example of the way the sacred spirals of the Celts were once painted onto the skin with woad before battle, a perfect way to add large area coverage in color. While we cannot know exactly what tattoos the woad warriors would have worn, we can surmise that they would have copied the spirals found on contemporary stone carvings, all that we now have left to document the mysterious race of the Picts.