Black Sword Alliance tattoo shop focuses on art of tattooing
22.02.12
Have known each other for about 25 years, and they have dedicated their lives to the world of art.
King was originally working for another shop until the owner, his mentor, decided to move to Oregon. King was then left with two options: work at another shop or start his own.
When King was asked why he didn't just begin to work at another shop, he explained that some of the shops he went to didn't have the same ethics that he did. They weren't exactly practicing good and clean tattooing.
King knew that it would be more time consuming and more expensive to own a shop, but he decided that he wanted to have a place where he could make the rules. This is how Black Sword Alliance all started.
The shop's name came from a combination of ideas, with alliance being chosen because of the group effort that takes place in the shop. As for the Black Sword portion, King had something else in mind.
"We didn't want the typical name; we wanted it to be almost vague," he said.
Source: Ball State Daily News