Placement · placement_shin
Shin
0 attested · 1 promoted2 sources · T2
What the research says
placement_anatomy- Category
- limb
- Limb taper
- Narrows toward the ankle. NOT STATED BY ANY FETCHED SOURCE.
- Available area
- Medium in the cited chart.
- Scale behavior
- Medium in the cited chart.
- Muscle direction
- Runs as a long straight line rather than a curve; one motif row in this corpus records a stemmed rose running along the line of the body naming the shin first. That value resolves to composition_body_flow plus this placement.
- Tattooability notes
- Thin skin directly over the tibia. INFERENCE from the cited education source general bone rule, which it states of the collarbone and not of the shin. Marked as inference.
Provenance
2 resolvedTattooing 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
Tattooing 101
Professional tattoo-education page, and the only fetched source that treats placement as a SKIN problem rather than a layout problem. Supplies the batch tattooability content: skin thickness over bone (“when you’re tattooing over a bone, like a collarbone, the skin is going to be thinner than on the arm, so you won’t want to go in as deep with a tattoo needle”), loose skin at the armpit and stomach, the rib-stretch problem, blowouts on thin skin, and movement-driven fading on hands. It also states the nerve-density asymmetry: “the outer arm has fewer nerve endings than the inner arm, making tattoos hurt worse on the inner arm”. LIMIT: it is written for the beginning tattooer, so its rankings are about difficulty of execution and not about what a placement can hold.
professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-30
Related concepts
1 linkAssociated with · 1
- strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.placement_behaviors of motif_rose ('shin') [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. Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_traditional_subjects; source_tattooing101_rose_stencils; source_tattoolife_mors_traditional; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.