Hip

Category

torso

Available area

Large in the cited chart.

Expansion path

Continuous with the upper thigh below and the stomach and lower back around; the chart treats a piece here as one that travels between those areas rather than sitting inside one.

Scale behavior

Large in the cited chart.

Wrap direction

THE CLEAREST WRAP CLAIM IN THE BATCH, and it is around a bone rather than a limb: “the upper thigh works really well as a sort of “wrapping” design that works its way up and around the hip bone”. The chart states the same movement from the other end: “a tattoo that starts on the upper or outer thigh and wraps around the hip”

Conflicts or cautions

Subject to the same body-change caution as the stomach: “it might be best to wait for a tattoo near the stomach or hips”

• Tattoo Placement Chart (opens in a new tab)

  Tier 2

  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

No relationship in the corpus touches Hip. The graph is sparse; the type listings carry browsing.