Tattoo ideas

Praying Hands Tattoo Designs

16 original praying hands designs, drawn in-house. Place any of them on a photo of your own skin.

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This set of 16 praying hands designs, by the numbers

Styles represented
illustrative (7), dotwork (4), chicano (2), watercolor (1), traditional (1), gothic (1)
Black-and-grey vs colour
94% black-and-grey, 6% colour
Most often drawn with
virgin mary, angel, jesus, rose

Counted from the 16 designs shown on this page. Every one was drawn for InkCraft — none are scraped or reposted. Free to reference with a link to this page.

What a praying hands tattoo can mean

The meanings this motif carries on the pages that argue them. Each line is that page's own reason for including it.

Christian tattoos
The most-worn Christian image after the cross, and it comes from a drawing — Durer's study of about 1508, made for an altarpiece that burned. Almost every version in circulation is a copy of a copy of that sketch.

See it on your skin before you commit

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