Black linework flash design of an eye inside a triangle, framed by outlined roses and leaves in a neo-traditional style.

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Eye in triangle with roses design

Neo-trad · Black and grey · Flash

A drawn tattoo design showing an open eye with shading inside a large outlined triangle. Roses and leaves in bold black outline with hatched detail surround the triangle and fill the lower and upper areas of the composition. The image is black ink linework on a beige background, with light grey shading in the eye and petals.

Neo-trad Botanical Eye Triangle Rose Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mind the coal scuttle and sit yourself down, and don't touch the pot on the left, it's been simmering since Tuesday and it's not for you. Now. You've been staring at that board over the stove since you came in, so you'll want to know about the eye. Everybody does. Old Piers Quennell carved it there with his penknife the winter the Halcyon lay frozen in the Kola ice, and he ringed it with roses because his sweetheart was called Rose, and because the men would not stand a bare triangle staring at them over their dinner.

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The eye was for the purser. Every Saturday that man came down the companionway with his ledger and counted the flour twice, and every Saturday Piers swore the flour had walked off in the night. So one dark watch Piers scratched the eye into the board, looking straight down into the galley, and told the boys it had been put there by the Almighty to watch the purser's hands. The purser came down next morning, saw it, and stopped counting altogether. He never touched the sugar again.

Piers went ashore at Hull with a sack of sugar under his coat and never came back to the ship. Some say the eye went with him. I say it's still up there, and it's watching you reach for that biscuit tin. Go on. I can see your hand.