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Placement · placement_spine

Spine

The vertebral midline of the back. Registered because it is the single body line the cited sources name twice as something a design can be run ALONG rather than placed on.
Thin
Low confidenceresearched

0 attested · 2 promoted1 source · T2

What the research says

placement_anatomy
Category
torso
Available area
A long narrow vertical strip. Not banded by the cited chart.
Scale behavior
Suits “small lines of script” at the narrow end and a long vertical composition at the other; five motif rows in this corpus already carry a spine value, four of them for long-axis subjects.
Muscle direction
THE ONE PLACEMENT IN THIS BATCH THE SOURCES DESCRIBE AS A LINE: “you can follow the “flow” of the body by putting the tattoo directly on one of the prominent lines of the body, like on the spine or in a straight line down the inner bicep or forearm”
Tattooability notes
Thin skin over vertebrae. INFERENCE from the cited source general bone rule; not stated of the spine by any fetched source.
Conflicts or cautions
The midline makes it the natural axis for composition_symmetrical and for the value bilateral symmetry across a spine or sternum midline that three motif rows already carry.

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

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Associated with · 2

  • ← incomingRoseMotifAttested
    strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.placement_behaviors of motif_rose ('spine') [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.

  • ← incomingMoonMotifThin
    strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.placement_behaviors of motif_moon ('spine') [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.