Traditional colour tattoo of clasped hands over a red heart, framed by a gold rope border, a scroll banner reading See you on the other side, and blue flowers, on the thigh.

Clasped hands in a heart on a thigh

Traditional · Thigh · Mixed · Photo

A traditional tattoo on the outer thigh shows two clasped hands resting over a solid red heart with a twisted rope border. Gold scrollwork and a banner carry the lettering See you on the other side, with blue flowers and green leaves at the sides. The hands are shaded in grey while the heart, banner and flowers use bold flat colour, and the design is centred in the frame.

Traditional Thigh Heart Clasped hands Flower Leaves Banner Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Ada, the carter's boy brought your letter up the row this morning and I read it standing in the yard with flour on my hands, so you'll forgive the smudge on the second page. Mam says you're to stop fretting about the price of the ticket. The collection tin at chapel has been rattling since Michaelmas, and Mrs Pryce put a whole half crown in it without a word, which tells you how the village has taken your going.

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The pit has been bad. Two of the Hughes boys were sent home after the roof came down in the number four level, and nobody has said when they'll go back. Dad still walks to the top of the lane each evening at the hour the cage used to come up, as if looking hard enough might hurry the men along. I don't tell him to stop.

Last Sunday, when the minister finished, we sang Abide With Me and the young ones at the back shouted the thing you always used to shout at the gate, see you on the other side, as if it were a joke. Nobody laughed. Then Ellen Vaughan stood up and said she'd have the words put on her own leg if it would bring her husband up safe from the drift. That's how I knew I'd be sending you a letter with a drawing in it.

I've done it in the margin below, two hands held over a red heart with rope round the edge like the winding rope on the headframe. Keep the paper flat. Mam says the kettle's on and the gas is cut off until Friday, so write soon and tell me what the sea looks like. Your loving sister, Nell.