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[Cotes]

Let the tanner do it.

Tanning has actually little do with it. Tanners just treat the removed skin so that it will not decompose and stays durable but flexible. I think it mostly involves using some kind of... substance on the skin to mess with it's structure. In middle ages the "substance" included either feces or urine if I recall correctly.

Tanners used to actually live apart from rest of the people, since it was such a dirty job that anyone not used to the smell found it unbearable.

Yeah I know.

The poor buggers barely get any work, though. It'd make sense to get a job on the side; especially since they're around "substances" and know their way around skin, it'd make a little bit of sense, yes? ... no?

Suturing would still make more sense. It's more about sophistication with a needle than crude knowledge about hides.

Tanners are by no mean the most useless dwarves to have around, and tanning also makes a good side-skill for less active dwarves. And we can't give improper uses for skills just because they could be made more useful.

[Aspgren]

Yeah.. not that it'd make any sense to have a tattoo parlor inside the tanner's workshop anyway. That's just BEGGING for infection.

[truckman1]

Yeah.. not that it'd make any sense to have a tattoo parlor inside the tanner's workshop anyway. That's just BEGGING for infection.

Are you implying that having a tattoo parlor anywhere in a dwarf fortress isn't begging for infection? Any given room or corridor is likely to contain some combination of free-roaming livestock, blood, vomit, or rotting, miasmic bodies.

Hell, being in of a dwarf fortress at all is begging for infection.

[billw]

No worries: magma is a good sterilizer.

[docawesome]

I can picture a dwarf running around randomly tattooing other dwarfs with images of cheese or the dwarfs family getting butchered by goblins it would be a more dickish version of the engraver.

[BodyGripper]

I can picture a baby completely covered in tattoos.

[Medicine Man]

I can picture a baby completely covered in tattoos.

This is a baby,it has a tatoo of the war of squashednuts.

[Double A]

Or suturing. Or perhaps engraving.

I think using both suturing and dyeing would be the best, although I don't think any other feature uses two skills at the same time.

Maybe like a building requiring architecture. But at the same time.