Composition · composition_wrap
Wrap
0 attested · 2 promoted1 source · T2
What the research says
composition- Category
- body-relational
- Visual traits
- Elements that run past the visible silhouette; the piece cannot be read whole from one position.
- Scale behavior
- THE SOURCE SETS A HARD LIMIT ON WHAT MAY WRAP, and it is a hierarchy rule rather than a size rule: “It's okay to go outside of the main shape of the arm if it's little background elements.” but “However, the main elements should all be seen from one angle.” with the stated consequence “If they aren’t, it will be hard to tell what the tattoo is.”
- Hierarchy roles
- background; filler
- Tattooability notes
- The source gives a growth argument for wrapping background elements: “it will be easier to add onto those organic shapes later, as opposed to having a tattoo that’s completely cut off at the sides”
- Directional movement
- Around the circumference, perpendicular to the limb axis.
- Conflicts or cautions
- THE SOURCE NAMES ONE EXCEPTION AND IT IS A CULTURAL TRADITION: “The only exception to this rule is the Japanese style, where tattoos are designed to wrap around the whole body.” That sentence is recorded and NOT converted into a composition node or a style association. No japanese style node exists in this corpus; T11.6 routed irezumi to T11.10 and T11.10 owns it.
Provenance
1 resolvedTattooing 101
Professional tattoo-education page and the primary body-relational composition source for this batch. It separates two things the trade usually blurs: fit, which is about matching the outline of the body part, and flow, which is about direction. The anatomical claim under flow is “All the muscles in the human body flow in a natural S-shape.” It sets the hierarchy rule that bounds wrapping - “However, the main elements should all be seen from one angle.” IMPORTANT LIMITS, BOTH RECORDED ON THE ROWS RATHER THAN USED: the page scopes its own claim with “Several tattoo styles are entirely based on how the body flows:” then teaches flow through tribal designs and names Japanese full-body wrapping as the one exception to its own wrap rule. Neither cultural example is reproduced as a node or a style association; T11.6 refused tribal and irezumi as styles and T11.10 owns both. NEGATIVE FINDING RECORDED SO NOBODY RE-DERIVES IT: a web-search summary attributed to this page a sentence ranking flow across styles, and a claim that flow is not prominent for small American Traditional or sticker-style work. Neither string is on the fetched page nor on any page saved for this batch. Search summaries are not sources.
professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-30
Related concepts
2 linksSupports composition · 2
- strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_snake ('wrap around a limb') [class EC]. Source is the supporting concept, target the composition, mirroring placement_supports. Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_snakes; source_tattoolife_snake_skin; source_inkppl_japanese_style; source_tattoolife_traditional_subjects; source_tattoolife_mors_traditional; source_tattoolife_japanese_animals; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.
- strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_dragon ('wrap around a limb') [class EC]. Source is the supporting concept, target the composition, mirroring placement_supports. Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_inkppl_japanese_style; source_rmg_tattoo_facts; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.