Tattoo shops in Cardigan

Cardigan, Wales has 1 tattoo shops on the map. There's just the one mapped studio in Cardigan right now, so the portfolio check matters more than ever. Walk-ins are worth asking about, but the good custom work everywhere books weeks out.

This guide covers every tattoo shop we could verify in and around Cardigan (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Cardigan Ink. If a studio's missing from Cardigan's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Cardigan tattoo lineup

1 in Cardigan:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Cardigan

None of the 1 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Most tattoo studios work by appointment anyway, so call or message before dropping in.

The one mapped tattoo shop sits on Black Lion Mews — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Tattoo tips for Cardigan

A few things worth knowing before you work through Cardigan's tattoo shops:

• Avoid the cheapest shop in town at Cardigan Ink. There's a reason it's the cheapest. With tattoos you get exactly what you pay for, permanently.
• Bring sugar and water. Sessions run long and blood sugar drops. Candy and a water bottle are standard kit for regulars.
• Check healed photos. Fresh tattoos always look good. Ask to see healed work — that's the real quality test.
• Match the artist to the style. Fine line, blackwork, traditional, realism — artists specialise. The best studio in town is the wrong one if the style's off.

Good to know

We searched about 25 km around Cardigan — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new tattoo shop in Cardigan can take a while to appear. The 1 above are only as current as the community map. A tattoo shop that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't rate studios or artists, and we never list prices — those are between you and the shop. What we list is the where and the how-to-find, from places real mappers have verified.

If you run one of the 1 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.