Forever True Tattoo

Trusted for 10 years

Forever True's resident tattooer and archivist Richie Clarke has been tattooing kings and criminals in his own establishment since 1995, drawing inspiration directly from the tattooing legends of the late 19th and early to mid 20th century.

Richie is currently reconstructing and repainting faithful reproductions of long lost tattoo designs from tattooing's earliest and most influential fore fathers, Bert Grimm, Joseph Hartley, George Bigmore, Tom Berg (to name but a few). Famous names your great grandfather would like to have visited between the bars and brothels (before he met your great grandmother) during shore leave from Singapore, to the Barbary Coast.

Now thanks to impeccable research and indelible links with the Amsterdam tattoo museum, these designs are available to collect again, repainted with an expert hand as they would have appeared more than half a century ago adorning the walls of tattoo parlours from the sea ports of Europe to the sideshows of Coney Island.