Amazigh / Berber vs Geometric
Amazigh / Berber was influenced by Geometric — diamond, cross, and chevron motifs are geometric protective symbols.
Amazigh / Berber
Traditional Amazigh (Berber) women's tattooing of small black diamonds, chevrons, crosses, and lines on the face and hands, now largely waning.
- Small isolated black geometric symbols
- Diamonds, lozenges, and chevron units
- Crosses, dots, and vertical chin lines
- Hand-poked soot pigment
- Face and hand placement shared with weaving motifs
Geometric
A precise tattoo style composed of crisp lines, triangles, hexagons, and repeated shapes arranged into balanced symmetrical constructions.
- Crisp straight linework
- Triangles, hexagons and polygons
- Symmetry and tessellation
- Interlocking prismatic facets
- Dotwork-shaded geometric fields
At a glance
| Amazigh / Berber | Geometric | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | Ancient–20th c. | 2000s–present |
| Discipline | Tattoo | Tattoo |
| Region | North Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia | Global, United States, Europe |
| Family | Indigenous, Tribal | Blackwork |
| Formal traits | geometric, minimal, symbolic-units, black-linework, facial | precise, symmetrical, linear, tessellated |
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