Placement · placement_foot
Foot
0 attested · 2 promoted3 sources · T1
What the research says
placement_anatomy- Category
- extremity
- Available area
- The cited chart lists Top of the foot among its smallest areas.
- Scale behavior
- Small in the cited chart. “Flowers, quotes, and small characters are very popular designs for ankle and foot tattoos.”
- Tattooability notes
- AN INDEPENDENT SECOND SOURCE FOR THE MOVEMENT-DRIVEN FADING CLAIM, added after the palette tranche found it: “a tattoo on movable skin areas such as palms, fingers, feet, elbows has the least durability compared to the same tattoo on the forearm” The same source gives the mechanism: “The skin in these moving areas is renewed many times more often, and, accordingly, the tattoo loses its color saturation and the purity of a picture.” The foot is named explicitly and was previously blank here.
- Conflicts or cautions
- THE PAIRED-FEET ARRANGEMENT IS NOT SYMMETRY. It is composition_bilateral_pair: two DIFFERENT subjects, one on each side, neither complete alone. It is also the corpus clearest case of a placement that exists in the plural, which this contract has no way to express - a left foot and a right foot are one node here.
Provenance
3 resolvedRoyal Museums Greenwich
National Maritime Museum page. Verbatim: the word 'tattoo' is "derived from the Tahitian word 'tatau', meaning to mark"; a pig and a rooster tattooed on the feet were "said to protect a seaman from drowning"; a full-rigged ship, an anchor, a dragon and a shellback turtle each record a specific voyage or crossing. Establishes protective (apotropaic) intent inside the tattoo domain.
museum · retrieved 2026-08-28
Tattooing 101
Professional tattoo-education page and the primary placement source for this batch. It is the only fetched source that bands EVERY body area by the size of work it holds - small, medium, large and extra-large - which is what makes the available_area and scale_behavior columns answerable at all. It also supplies the fit rule (“a forearm tattoo shouldn’t wrap so far around the arm that it overlaps”), the design-expansion warning, and two orientation rules. IMPORTANT NEGATIVE FINDING, recorded because it bears directly on what this corpus may claim: the page states “Tattoo placements don’t have any specific meaning tied to them.” That is a Tier 2 trade claim about the modern Western commercial context in which the page is written. IT DOES NOT AND CANNOT SETTLE whether placement carries meaning or restriction in any cultural tradition - two Tier 1 museum sources in this same batch record placements that do. The claim is recorded, scoped, and NOT used to suppress a cultural placement rule anywhere in the corpus.
professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-30
iNKPPL Tattoo Magazine
Trade magazine page and the only fetched source that ORDERS pigments by durability: pale and pastel first to go, then yellow, orange and green, with saturated dark colours most stable. It also names UV as the mechanism and corrects a common assumption - “not only color tattoos fade over the years”. CROSS-AXIS FINDING RECORDED HERE BECAUSE IT BELONGS TO PLACEMENT, NOT PALETTE: “a tattoo on movable skin areas such as palms, fingers, feet, elbows has the least durability compared to the same tattoo on the forearm” - an independent second source for the fading claim this batch placement rows carry from Tattooing 101, and it extends it to the elbow and the foot, which those rows did not have.
professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-30
Related concepts
2 linksAssociated with · 2
- strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.placement_behaviors of motif_rooster ('foot') [class EP]. PLACEMENT AXIS. Typed associated_with, not placement_supports: the packs use placement_supports only as placement -> composition (doc 01 'forearm -> placement_supports -> vertical_composition'; specimen rel_0004), and model motif -> placement as 'anatomy_fit', which is not in the locked 14. The placement_ target prefix carries the axis. The cited source states this placement. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.
- strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.placement_behaviors of motif_pig ('foot') [class EP]. PLACEMENT AXIS. Typed associated_with, not placement_supports: the packs use placement_supports only as placement -> composition (doc 01 'forearm -> placement_supports -> vertical_composition'; specimen rel_0004), and model motif -> placement as 'anatomy_fit', which is not in the locked 14. The placement_ target prefix carries the axis. The cited source states this placement. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.