Single-needle
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Single needle describes a practice in tattooing of using one needle. Usually more needles are used to speed up the process of creating a tattoo (many individual needles combined into one tattoo needle). Single needle tattoo is a Jailhouse tattoo trademark. This is mainly due to the inablity of prisioners to obtain needles.
