Ancient as Time: Acetates from the Collection of Lyle Tuttle

Ancient As Time: Acetates from the Collection of Lyle Tuttle is a rare look into the working foundation of traditional tattooing—actual acetate stencil designs pulled from one of the most important collections in tattoo history. These aren’t polished flash sheets—they’re the tools artists used to tattoo with, preserved and printed for study and use.

Inside, you get 50 lay-flat pages (8.5" x 11") packed with hundreds of designs spanning the 1940s through the 1970s, including rare and previously unseen work from both known and unknown artists. Printed in the USA with a durable leatherette cover and high-gloss paper, it’s built for real shop use—tracing, referencing, and breaking designs down.

This is the stuff behind the stuff—the bridge between flash on the wall and needles in the skin. A portion of proceeds even goes toward preserving Lyle Tuttle’s archive, so you’re literally helping keep tattoo history alive.

• Proudly printed and bound in the USA with a durable, screen printed leatherette cover
• (50) 8.5x11 pages on a premium quality high-gloss 100lb paper
• Lay-flat book perfect for copying and tracing 
• Hand-picked acetate designs from the collection of Lyle Tuttle
• Forward from Lyle Tuttle 
• Limited edition printing