Each tattoo is designed around an individual's life story The Spanish conquistadors who landed in 1521 dubbed the Philippines the Islands of the Painted Ones after the heavily tattooed locals. Nearly ...

MANILA, Philippines - When one thinks of Filipino design, one imagines a room with a giant spoon and fork on the wall, a wooden man in a barrel on a shelf and copious amounts of woven cloth in a ...

The Spanish conquistadors who landed in 1521 dubbed the Philippines the Islands of the Painted Ones after the heavily tattooed locals. Nearly 500 years on, tribal tattooing is almost extinct. Aya Lowe ...