{"product_id":"needle-work-a-history-of-commercial-tattooing-in-canada-9780228025078","title":"Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating permanent images on the skin of paying clients. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom this early example of tattooing as work, Jamie Jelinski takes us from coast to coast with detours to the United States, England, and Japan as he traces the evolution of commercial tattooing in Canada over more than one hundred years. \u003ci\u003eNeedle Work\u003c\/i\u003e offers insight into how tattoo artists navigated regulation, the types of spaces they worked in, and the dynamic relationship between the images they tattooed on customers and other forms of visual culture and artistic enterprise. Merging biographical narratives with an examination of tattooing's place within wider society, Jelinski reveals how these commercial image makers bridged conventional gaps between cultural production and practical, for-profit work, thereby establishing tattooing as a legitimate career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichly illustrated and drawing on archives, print media, and objects held in institutions and private collections across Canada and beyond, \u003ci\u003eNeedle Work\u003c\/i\u003e provides a timely understanding of a vocation that is now familiar but whose intricate history has rarely been considered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jamie Jelinski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's\/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Ar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780228025078","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48671125700745,"sku":"9780228025078","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_01e353d1-b9f1-495e-acf1-f78ab309b438.jpg?v=1791954618","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/needle-work-a-history-of-commercial-tattooing-in-canada-9780228025078","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}