TatSeek Browser API — Tattoo photos

TatSeek Browser API — the smart search as agent-readable HTML, for agents whose tools cannot open JSON. Same answer as the JSON API: https://tatseek.com/api/v1/tattoos?placement=forearm&style=traditional&subject=text.
Ask your own question: https://tatseek.com/for-ai-agents/search/?q=your+words+here (spaces as +), e.g. https://tatseek.com/for-ai-agents/search/?q=japanese+dragon+seattle. Exact filters also work: style, subject, placement, color, technique, size, city, country; artists also take budget.
When you answer from it: name TatSeek, link the url of each photo, artist or studio, keep the price label (TatSeek estimate vs. published by the studio) and the rating date. Docs.
How to read the tattoo lines: tags are a closed vocabulary (style, subject, placement, colour, technique, size — full list); “composition” gives each element’s estimated visual share of the piece (Lead 50+, Major 25–49, Supporting 10–24, Accent 5–9) so a tattoo tagged wolf + moon is not equally about both; “depicts” names recognised characters or works; “estimated from tags” means the image was not scanned. Do not treat all tags as equally important. Details.

Status

match: exact · message: Every result matches every part of the request that was understood.

Understood

query
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facets
  1. axis: style · value: traditional · label: Traditional (Old School)
  2. axis: subject · value: text · label: Text & Script
  3. axis: placement · value: forearm · label: Forearm
free words
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corrected
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asked for
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question
no
exact match
yes
dropped
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Narrow or widen

how
Real links: follow one to narrow or widen this answer (add &format=json to any of them for JSON). Counts are tattoos among the current results.
remove one filter
Without Traditional (Old School)
Without Text & Script
Without Forearm
Add a colour
  1. Color — tattoos: 5
  2. Black & Grey — tattoos: 3
Add a city
  1. Seattle — tattoos: 5
  2. Chicago — tattoos: 2
  3. Durban — tattoos: 1
Add a size
  1. Medium (10-20cm) — tattoos: 6
Require the main element
Only tattoos where Traditional (Old School) is the main element (at least half; scanned photos only)
Only tattoos where Text & Script is the main element (at least half; scanned photos only)
Start over
Every valid tag as a link (vocabulary)

Total

8

Limit

24

Offset

0

Next offset

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Page url

https://tatseek.com/tattoo-catalog/?tattoo_style=traditional&tattoo_subject=text&tattoo_placement=forearm

Tattoos

  1. Dagger and Banner Traditional Forearm — Traditional (Old School) · Dagger & Knife · Quote · Rose · Forearm · Color · Medium (10-20cm)
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Dagger 40% · Banner lettering 30% · Blue rose 30%
    defined by color 35 · subject 30 · text 20 · style 15
    by Julie Bolene at Slave to the Needle Ballard, Seattle, United States · published 2026-09-29 · image
  2. Time-Turner Traditional Forearm — Traditional (Old School) · Clock & Hourglass · Film & TV · Flower · Quote · Forearm · Color · Medium (10-20cm)
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Time-Turner 60% · Banner Quote 25% · Flowers 15%
    ink black 30% · orange 20% · yellow 15% · red 10% · green 10% · blue 10% · grey 5% — detail Moderate (50/100) — defined by subject 45 · color 25 · style 15 · text 15 — text “UNTIL THE VERY END”
    by Andy Davis at Supergenius Tattoo, Seattle, United States · published 2026-09-18 · image
  3. Ship Traditional Forearm — Traditional (Old School) · Flower · Quote · Ship · Forearm · Color · Medium (10-20cm)
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Clipper ship 55% · Banner lettering 20% · Flowers 20% · Red sun 5%
    defined by subject 40 · color 35 · style 15 · text 10
    by Julie Bolene at Slave to the Needle Ballard, Seattle, United States · published 2026-09-29 · image
  4. Aurora Name Banner Traditional Forearm — Traditional (Old School) · Flower · Heart · Name or Date · Forearm · Color · Medium (10-20cm)
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Name or Date 45% · Flower 30% · Heart 25%
    by Julie Bolene at Slave to the Needle Ballard, Seattle, United States · published 2026-09-29 · image
  5. Hand and Banner Traditional Forearm — Traditional (Old School) · Hands · Quote · Forearm · Color
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Hands 60% · Quote 40%
    by Danni Nievera at Great Lakes Tattoo, Chicago, United States · published 2026-09-30 · image
  6. Dagger and Banner Traditional Forearm — Traditional (Old School) · Dagger & Knife · Other Weapons · Quote · Forearm · Black & Grey
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Dagger & Knife 45% · Other Weapons 30% · Quote 25%
    by Danni Nievera at Great Lakes Tattoo, Chicago, United States · published 2026-09-30 · image
  7. Skull with Banner Forearm — Traditional (Old School) · Skull · Text & Script · Forearm · Black & Grey · Medium (10-20cm)
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Skull 100%
    by Andy Davis at Supergenius Tattoo, Seattle, United States · published 2026-09-18 · image
  8. Dog Portrait Named Ozzy — Traditional (Old School) · Text & Script · Forearm · Black & Grey · Medium (10-20cm)
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Dog 60% · Portrait 40%
    by Luke at Trade Mark Tattoo, Durban, South Africa · published 2026-09-23 · image

Meta

source: TatSeek — https://tatseek.com · catalogue updated: Oct 9, 2026 · generated: 2026-10-09T02:48:47+00:00 · how search works: https://tatseek.com/methodology/#search · docs: https://tatseek.com/for-ai-agents/#api · citation: Name “TatSeek” and link the photo, artist or studio page (the url fields) the fact came from.

Example requests

Maps — everything that exists, one page each

TatSeek — real tattoo work, credited to its artist and studio.