Karin Shares a Tattoo Fit for a Seamstress

I was leaving Governor's Island after the NYC Poetry Festival last summer, when I spotted Karin sitting down waiting for the ferry back to Brooklyn.<br /><br />I asked her about her tattoo:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKCRRpCbFZwELA8ikzQuYKboNI45D0qMQUzUkWoB7nF2UGPsNt7dM5suV7WGnCMB7NuMNGlneyQS7UUuFsn93ZygDzV-O0Lsl-pNWe22NQMa0WfHVrLPHx9ap0JAWfF3xFy4bfRevyaU/s1600/stitch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKCRRpCbFZwELA8ikzQuYKboNI45D0qMQUzUkWoB7nF2UGPsNt7dM5suV7WGnCMB7NuMNGlneyQS7UUuFsn93ZygDzV-O0Lsl-pNWe22NQMa0WfHVrLPHx9ap0JAWfF3xFy4bfRevyaU/s1600/stitch.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br />Karin explained that she is a seamstress, which goes a long way to explaining this tattoo. Initially, she told me, "it was just the thread and Maggie added the needle and the hand."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgabuH9bmt15useXaDlWJJ2ED0hJJSqbCVgG5eDMq8Ot_Gf2a6BDfwjDGvwMXZIRP42Go5gZ-JIsPldZxOC8qha4m8UdWBPnCqAtQnbLb7ofW96PVF0sYUKHA2zZXqfT1KaKCqKInB-dIM/s1600/hand+stitch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgabuH9bmt15useXaDlWJJ2ED0hJJSqbCVgG5eDMq8Ot_Gf2a6BDfwjDGvwMXZIRP42Go5gZ-JIsPldZxOC8qha4m8UdWBPnCqAtQnbLb7ofW96PVF0sYUKHA2zZXqfT1KaKCqKInB-dIM/s1600/hand+stitch.jpg" width="526" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.maggiebrophy.com/">Maggie Cho Brophy</a> was the tattoo artist from <a href="http://www.gnostictattoo.com/">Gnostic Tattoo</a> in Bushwick, Brooklyn, who added the parts that gave this seamstress's tattoo a whole new dimension.<br /><br />Thanks to Karin for sharing her work with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2014 Tattoosday.</span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-4129709c-cf7b-b7c9-e521-e3235a15cd16"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are seeing this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></span>

Karin Shares a Tattoo Fit for a Seamstress

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