Headpiece


A headpiece is an object worn on the head for decoration or protection.
Headpiece may refer to:
Alternatively, "headpiece" may be a printer's term for decorative element placed at the top of a page; the "tailpiece" was a similar element placed at the bottom of the page.
headpiece' Alternative definition : Tattooing
A headpiece refers to a design or patterned scheme of artwork purposed for the tattooing of a persons head. The term "headpiece" is widely known in the tradecraft of Tattooing and is found alongside predictable iterations such as "chestpiece", "backpiece", "thighpiece" etc.
The term is verbal artistic shorthand and covers the full range of styles, size, placement and colour work applied by the common variants of electric-powered tattoo machines or by way of "hand-poked" tattooing. The terminology "headpiece" likely came into common usage as tattoo vernacular through publications such as Billy Tinney's Tattoo magazine sometime in the Seventies or Eighties. This is anectodal and not historically verifiable due to the low volume of recorded history about the nomenclature around tattooing of the twentieth century, despite its persistent interest as a sub-cultural craft continuously throughout said century.