Black line drawing of a circular geometric seal design with interlocking rings, arcs and solid dots, shown as a flash sketch with no body placement.

Circular geometric seal design in black line

Geometric · Black and grey · Flash

A bold black outline drawing of a circle containing interlocking rings, crescent arcs, parallel diagonal lines and small solid dots. The linework is clean and even with no shading, and the composition fills the circle edge to edge on a white background.

Geometric Circle Ring Arc Dot Geometric pattern Line

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Old Ambrose Tulley had cut seals for the Harrowgate customs house for forty years, and he never let an apprentice near the brass die. Dilys Marr asked why in her second winter. She was sixteen, quick with a file, and she had spent weeks copying his circles onto slate until her fingers cramped.

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"Every ring is a door," he told her, the morning the wax was poured for the spring shipments. "Every dot is a bolt turned. Miscount and the thing shuts on the wrong hand."

She laughed, but she counted anyway that night by the stove. Eleven rings. Three crescents facing one way like gulls on a rail. A pair of straight lines running corner to corner, as if someone had drawn a road and then thought better of it. She set the slate face down when the kettle boiled and did not look at it again.

Tulley died in February with the die still locked in the strongbox. On the night of the first gale, Dilys opened it alone and found the cutting wrong. One dot sat a hair left of where his had always been. She pressed it into wax anyway, because the ledger was due and the clerks were waiting. The harbour bell stopped mid-toll. In the morning the customs men counted their stamps and found every one of them honest. Dilys stamped the rest of the year's papers with the crooked seal and never once corrected it.