Mor

A selection of minimalist lettering, Thai script, small Sak Yant and blackwork pieces.

Mor works small and clean. Where some artists chase the back piece, he chases the perfect tiny one, the minimalist design, the fine line of script, the small blackwork mark that says exactly enough. He joined BKK INK fourteen years ago, in 2012, and restraint has been his craft ever since.

He came into tattooing through street culture. At fifteen he watched a friend get tattooed in a studio at MBK and was hooked. Years later, while he was selling street-fashion clothing, he ran into that same friend, by then a tattoo artist, who invited him in and taught him the craft. He went on to work at Kai, one of the pioneers of tattooing in Thailand, before joining BKK INK.

Lettering is at the centre of it: delicate script in different languages, typewriter, cursive, clean sans-serif, and because Thai is his native language, Thai script comes through with a fluency a non-native letterer cannot match. He also carries the Sak Yant tradition alongside blackwork and old school.

Mor specialises in Sak Yant, minimalist lettering, Blackwork and Old School tattoos, with a particular focus on small, clean pieces. His lettering covers delicate script in several languages, typewriter, cursive and sans-serif block letters, with native fluency in Thai.

Small-scale work is a discipline of subtraction: a tiny piece has no room for a wandering line, so the craft rests on precision and placement. Alongside that he carries the sacred Sak Yant tradition. Explore it on our Sak Yant tattoo Bangkok page.

New to Sak Yant? The Wikipedia overview of Sak Yant explains where the style comes from.

Small and minimalist tattoos need a specialist precisely because there is nowhere to hide. On a tiny piece a single uneven line or slightly off letter is the whole tattoo, so the craft rewards an artist who has trained for years in restraint and precise placement, a small tattoo is not an easy tattoo.

Mor's native Thai fluency matters here too: a phrase placed by someone who reads and writes it natively avoids the errors that make multilingual script cringe-worthy. He is the studio's counterpart to Yhee, who handles bold, large-scale chicano lettering.

Mor's edge is restraint and language. Fourteen years of small-scale work have gone into the clean line, the balanced letterform and the correctly weighted small blackwork mark, and because Thai is his native language, Thai script reads with a fluency a non-native hand simply cannot fake. He writes across typewriter, cursive and sans-serif styles, and carries the sacred Sak Yant tradition alongside blackwork and old school.

He works as part of a studio with 57 international convention awards since 2009, and pairs with Yhee to cover script from a single fine line to a back-spanning statement.

Mor specializes in Sak Yant, minimalist lettering, Blackwork and Old School tattoos, focusing on small, clean pieces. He writes delicate script in several languages, typewriter, cursive and sans-serif block letters, with native fluency in Thai.

Book Mor through the booking page or message the studio and request him by name. Even small minimalist and lettering pieces benefit from a short consultation to confirm the wording, language and placement before agreeing a maximum price.

Mor and the team work in English, French and Thai. Because Thai is his native language, he tattoos Thai script with native fluency, and also works in typewriter, cursive and sans-serif lettering for other languages.