Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Book
Book which belonged to Jessie Knight, titled 'THE TATTOO. A PICTORIAL HISTORY' by Jeff Jaguer. The book includes an article on Jessie herself.
P98-99: Article titled ‘Jessie the Pioneer’. P111: Photograph of Jessie Knight.
Jessie Knight was the first prominent female tattooist in the UK. She took over her father's tattoo shop in Barry aged 18 in 1927 and went on to prominence whilst working in Chatham, Portsmouth and Aldershot. She returned to Barry in 1968, and continued to work there as a tattoo artist into the 1980s.