Black fine line botanical wreath tattoo with dotwork accents on the outer thigh.

Botanical wreath on a thigh

Fine line · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A circular wreath of leaves, buds and small flowers is drawn in black ink on the side of a thigh. The linework is fine and even, with the leaves partly shaded and small dots scattered around the outline. The wreath sits centrally on the skin against a plain, softly lit background.

Fine line Botanical Dotwork Thigh Wreath Leaves Flower Bud Dot Circle Foliage

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, sit down, and mind the kettle, it's older than your mother. The Mary Ann was moored at Braunston the winter the frost came in October and never left until Lady Day. Her skipper, Tobias Rudd, had a wife called Edie who grew herbs in anything that would hold soil: mint in a bucket, thyme in a boot, lavender in a tea chest bolted to the roof.

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Every Sunday Edie wove a wreath from whatever was green, rosemary mostly, a bit of bay, sprigs of the thyme with the little flowers still on. She hung it on the tiller so the lock-keepers would see it coming and put the gates ready. The frost sat on the leaves like pepper, and Tobias swore it was the only thing on the cut that ever looked as tidy as the brasses. He'd tap the wreath with one finger each time he passed it, the way you'd touch a doorframe for luck.

One morning in February the wreath was gone from the tiller. Tobias walked the towpath to Buckby with his collar up, asking every boat he passed. Nobody had seen it. He came back at dusk and found Edie sitting on the cabin step, not crying, just looking at the water in the lock below us.

There it was, turning slowly on the black water, a ring of rosemary going round and round with nobody's hands on it. Edie said it had only gone to see the rest of the canal, and it would come back when it had seen enough. Tobias sat down beside her and neither of them mentioned the gates.