Black and grey traditional tattoo of a faceted diamond heart with a dotted border, flanked by roses and a small flower, on the thigh.

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Diamond heart and roses on a thigh

Traditional · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A faceted, diamond-cut heart with a beaded dotted border sits at the centre, with roses and a small flower filling the space around it. The bold black outlines are paired with grey shading that gives the heart its gemstone shine, and the image is a three-panel stacked view of the same tattoo on a thigh.

Traditional Thigh Heart Diamond Rose Flower

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The night the widow Quill brought in the heart, the rain had been falling on Carrow since teatime, and the gas lamps along Tanner Row hissed like kettles. Aldous Pell kept the pawnshop on the corner and did not look up when the bell rang over the door. He was counting coppers into a tin by the light of one candle, because the gas board had cut his supply that morning.

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She set a small silver box on the counter. Inside, on a bed of faded velvet, sat a heart cut from a single stone, its facets ground so fine that the candle broke into a hundred pale coins across the ceiling. A border of tiny beads ran round its edge, each one pressed by hand. Pell had cut hearts like it for thirty years, for sailors who wanted something to bring home, and he knew the work before he knew the woman. "Four shillings," he said. She said it was worth forty. He said it was worth what Tanner Row would pay, which was four.

She left without taking the money and said she would come back on Sunday. Pell put the box on the shelf behind the till and went up to bed. In the morning the shelf held only a thin stripe in the dust, and the two painted roses on the wallpaper beside it had opened their petals overnight, red as a struck match. Nobody on the street could say how that had happened, and nobody asked Pell to explain.

Sunday came and no knock with it. Pell kept the candle lit on the Sunday nights after, and on the first wet night of each month the heart was back on the counter, cold beads and all, with a price slip tucked under it in a hand he did not know. The slip always read paid.