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Placement · placement_shoulder_blade

Shoulder Blade

The scapular region of the upper back. A tier-3 placement value in this corpus and banded medium by the cited chart, which also records that the working size has moved: “While you can get smaller designs on the shoulder blade, large tattoo designs that almost drape across the shoulder have become more popular in recent years.”
Thin
Medium confidenceresearched

No links1 source · T2

What the research says

placement_anatomy
Category
torso
Available area
Medium in the cited chart, with the drape over the shoulder extending it upward.
Expansion path
Extends onto the shoulder and into the upper back.
Scale behavior
Medium in the cited chart.
Wrap direction
The cited source describes large work here as draping over the shoulder rather than wrapping a limb.
Muscle direction
A broad flat plane over a moving bone. No fetched source describes its muscle direction.

Provenance

1 resolved

  • 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

Related concepts

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