Black and grey dreamcatcher tattoo with a geometric centre and leaves beside it, on a forearm.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Dreamcatcher and leaves on a forearm

Geometric · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A black ink dreamcatcher sits on the forearm, with a circular outline enclosing a radiating geometric flower pattern. Two leaves with fine shading extend from the right side of the circle, and a faint dark smudge sits near the lower left of the design. The photograph is black and white, with the arm lit softly against a dark background.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mirrel had been told the web was for catching bad dreams, and for the first three winters of her apprenticeship she believed it. Her aunt Orla strung sinew across a willow hoop and sang the knots tight while frost crept under the shutters of the fen cottage. Nobody in the Kingdom of Thessaly Fen asked what happened to the dreams once they were caught. They simply hung the rings above the cradles and slept.

Keep reading

The trouble began with the flower at the centre. Orla would not let Mirrel weave it. "That is the lantern pattern," she said, "and lanterns are for the drowned." So Mirrel waited until the old woman's cough kept her abed, then took a bone needle and a spool of grey thread down to the lake and began the petals herself, eight arcs crossing at the heart, each line running out to the rim like a road leaving town.

When the flower was finished, the lake went still, and the dreams that came to the cradles that night were not bad ones at all. They were faces of people who had left the fen long ago, walking the shore with their hands full of leaves. In the morning, two green shoots had pushed through the willow, one on each side, as if the ring had decided to grow branches of its own.

Orla came down to the water on her crutch, studied the work for a long while, and said nothing. Then she took a second spool from her apron and wove the leaves in, shading each vein with a patient hand. By midsummer the whole fen was hanging rings with flowers at their hearts, and nobody could say for certain which dreams had been caught and which had been let go.

More like this

Black and grey photo of a bold black skull with a snake coiled around it on the inner forearm, in a traditional style.
Skull and snake on a forearm
Black ink dreamcatcher tattoo pair with feathers running down the outer thigh, shown in a sepia-toned photo.
Two dreamcatchers and feathers on a thigh
Black and white photo of two geometric mandala tattoos, one on each forearm, with fine linework on the left and dense dotwork shading on the right.
Matching mandala tattoos on two forearms
Black and grey tattoo of three dreamcatchers with trailing feathers on the side of a torso, above the waistband of denim shorts.
Dreamcatchers and feathers on the side ribs
Black and grey botanical tattoo of flowers, buds and leaves climbing a thigh in a black and white photograph.
Floral vine tattoo on a thigh
Black and grey photograph of two small solid butterfly tattoos with dot antennae and tiny flowers on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Two small butterflies on a forearm
Blue ink mandala tattoo with fine ornamental flourishes and a small drop motif on the inner forearm, in a geometric style.
Blue mandala tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a mountain, a tree and a sun inside a circle on the inner upper arm.
Circular mountain and tree landscape on upper arm
Black and white photo of a fine line botanical tattoo of leaves, sprigs and small flowers on the inner wrist and forearm.
Fine line botanical sprigs on a wrist
Black and grey fine line tattoo of two dreamcatchers with hanging feathers running down the centre of a bare back.
Dreamcatchers and feathers down the back
Black and grey fine line dreamcatcher tattoo with feathers and beads running down the centre of a bare back.
Dreamcatchers and feathers down the spine
Black and grey dreamcatcher tattoo with feathers and beads running down the middle of a woman's back.
Dreamcatchers and feathers down the back

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.