Old-school traditional tattoos usually celebrate nautical themes, hearts, pinup girls, daggers, roses, and any combination. See our favorites.

Traditional tattoos are generally characterized by bold jewel tones and thick, black lines, and while artists can create tattoos of all topics in the old-school style, this type of tattoo usually ...

This old kind of tattoo flash was a lot more commonplace in the tattoo world than it is now. You saw it in tattoo shops. New iconography started being introduced into the mix by newer tattoos ...

A large photo of Willis’s tattoo is just one of the many quirky items featured in “Old-School Ink: New Haven’s Tattoos,” an exhibition at the New Haven Museum on view through March 10, 2018.