Black fine line arrow tattoo with feathered fletching on the top of a foot near the ankle, shown in a beige embellished peep-toe heel.

Arrow tattoo on the top of a foot

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A close view of a foot in an embellished beige peep-toe heel, with a red satin dress hem above. A single black arrow with feathered fletching runs diagonally across the top of the foot towards the ankle. The linework is simple and the ink is solid black on a neutral skin tone, with no colour in the tattoo.

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Dear Tom, The rain has stopped at last, so I can hear the river again from the workshop window. Mr Hollis sent round the goose feathers this morning, a whole sack of them from the Fenland farm, and I have been sorting them by the lamp since supper. Wing feathers only, mind. Left wing for the right-handed bow and the other for the rest, as Father taught us, though he never once let me do the cutting.

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The guild wants six dozen shafts by Saturday for the match at Castle Meadow. Alderman Price has ordered his own with blue cock feathers, which I think is showing off, but the coin is good. I bound the first of them tonight with silk thread and a dab of glue, and the fletching sat so straight against the shaft that I laughed out loud. Nobody was here to hear it but the cat, and she was unimpressed.

I have been thinking about what you said before you sailed, that a shaft is only as true as the feather that steers it. I did not believe you then. Now I think you were right, and I think it was the sea talking. Tomorrow I will cut the nocks and carry the arrows down to the butts before the fog comes off the water.

I have kept the last grey feather aside, the one with the notch in its edge like a little door. I have pressed it flat under the Bible, and I am posting it with this letter. Wear it in your hat or lose it in the rigging, it does not matter which. Just send word when you reach Valparaiso so I know the feather arrived and the sea has not taken you too.

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