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It's the second part of that quote that always gets me into trouble.

William Morris was so punk rock.

My tattoo is a simplification of Wm. Morris's "Linden" pattern. What I really wanted was to have the pattern all over my whole body.

There's a place called JR Burrows that does beautiful William Morris carpets, fabrics, wallpaper...also traditional Arts & Crafts lace curtains (including a fabulous one with spider webs in the border), which I love. Their website is www.burrows.com

Not cheap stuff, but so beautiful.

I'm so not a tattoo person, but I've seen a couple of episodes of Miami ink, and I see that, often, they basically draw something and then create a transfer and then trace it.

I think that all over tattoos are very tricky, and sometimes a certain kind of wonderful, although I kind of feel like if your body really looks great, why hide it? And if it doesn't, that tattoo may not really help.

BUT ... your idea gives me another idea; you know how they can do body scans to create custom clothes? And how the Hollywood folks use it to do stuff with special effects, etc.?

Well, all they would need to do is scan your body, and scan in the Morris pattern you like OR more than ONE of them, and they could probably morph them from, say just a foliage-based design around your feet, up to a more floral thing near your shoulders, carefully gradating the design. And then, have it print out NUMEROUS morsels of transfers that all "add up" to creating the whole "suit".

OK. Better yet, they could just make a sheer body stocking that looked like that, so you could just wear it to a party and take it off, soak it in Woolite and fold it up for later.

The tattoo-stocking idea has pretty much been done by Gaultier. In retrospect, I'm glad I only got my upper back done....

It was the Loden pattern, btw, not Linden. It's been a while!

I knew Gaultier did some shirts like that, because a friend of mine has one from almost ten years ago and still wears it, but I didn't know he'd gone the whole-body thing that I was talking about.