Pictish Warrior Tattoo Design salmon and this beautiful pattern was

and this beautiful pattern was designed specifically for that placement

making a strong statement of ethnic pride

the first letter of Theos

Drawn from a photograph

This way they are clearly a set

Pictish Warrior Tattoo Design salmon and this beautiful pattern wasAn example of the way the sacred spirals of the Celts were once painted onto the skin with woad before battle, a perfect way to add large area coverage in color. While we cannot know exactly what tattoos the woad warriors would have worn, we can surmise that they would have copied the spirals found on contemporary stone carvings, all that we now have left to document the mysterious race of the Picts.