Old English style of tattoo design is another one of the many tattoo styles that is getting popular day by day. As its name suggests, this style of tattoo design mainly deals with art forms that have historical significance pertaining to the medieval period in Europe. Although this style should encompass almost any design that relates to the medieval period, the popular tattoo designs usually deal with the writing style of that time. In general, the Old English tattoos generally refer to the Blackletter font and the textualis style of writing.

As most manuscripts during this period were hand written in Gothic script, they were more artistic in nature. The writing in such manuscripts is characterized by neatly defined alphabets which are stylishly adorned with flourishes and exaggerated edges. Writing out of fashion words or words that have been dropped from usage in common parlance like olde, hopen, thy, thou, art etc only adds to the medieval feel of the artwork.

Old English tattoos usually contain a short poem, a sentence or the name of person, place, animal or thing which that person deeply respects. Quotes from famous people too can be inscribed. The lengths of the words to be written define the size of the tattoo. Such types of tattoos are often inscribed on the chest and at the back where artistes have plenty of room to write and play around with the design.

Tattoos showing medieval scenes as well as equipments like the broadswords, helms, armors, etc too are popular. Many tattoos sport a medieval scene along with along with appropriate animals which reflect the tattoo owners current mood and beliefs. Some simply show a scene of the life in the dark ages.

A person's name written in Gothic style can be great: Usually people choose their own name or the name of somebody they admire as the subject of the tattoo. Such types of tattoo's can also compliment any other tattoo inscribed on your body because of their generality.

A message, poem or a name written in Gothic style on our body will definitely catch the attention of others. Old English tattoos, were present among tattoo artists since a long time and are easy to replicate without using any apparent gear. A skilled artist will of course, will be able replicate the design as you want it, but like any other tracing process; the finer details may be lost as well.