Close photo of a fine line black Celtic knot tattoo with a looped top on the outer ankle, shown against a dark blue background.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Fine line Celtic knot on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small Celtic-style knot made of a single continuous black line, with three interlinked loops below and a narrow loop rising from the top. The linework is thin and even, with no shading, and the design sits on the outer ankle of a light-skinned foot. The dark blue background makes the black ink stand out clearly, and the tattoo fills only a small part of the frame.

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

The road over the pass was closed by snow for three days, so the carrier left the salt and the iron nails at the inn at Caer Ddu and went on foot with only his mule. Halfway up, the mule stopped at a cairn and would not move, and when he looked down he saw a single black thread lying across the path, thin as a hair, going round and round a stone.

Keep reading

He bent to lift it and it did not come away. It ran from one loop to the next, under itself and over itself, and where it crossed there was no end to find. His grandmother had told him that the old knots were made by people who could not stop walking in circles when they were lost, and so they made a thing that had no start and no finish so the walking would have somewhere to rest. He sat down on the wet stone and tried to follow the line with his finger, and his finger went around three times and came back to the place he had begun.

He took out his knife and was about to cut it when the mule nudged him, and he understood the thread was not to be cut. He tied the mule's rope to the loop at the top, the narrow one that rose like a question, and the animal walked on, and the rope slid through the knot without catching and pulled him after it down into the valley, where the lamps of the inn were lit and the snow had already stopped.

More like this

Fine line black outline of a small flying bird tattooed on the outer ankle, shown in a close photograph of bare skin.
Small outline bird on an ankle
Small black fine line tattoo of a geometric symbol made from crossed lines, placed on the side of an ankle.
Small geometric symbol on an ankle
Small fine line black tattoo of an upward triangle crossed by a horizontal line, on the side of a foot near the heel.
Small triangle with a bar on the foot
Bold black stick figure tattoo with wavy hair and two rotated numerals on the top of a foot, shown on a blue paper surface.
Stick figure and numerals on a foot
Small black fine line tattoo of a heart intertwined with a cross on the back of an ankle, shown on a beige carpet.
Small heart and cross on an ankle
Close-up of a small black fine line triskele tattoo, three spirals joined to a central triangle, on the top of a foot.
Small triskele tattoo on the foot
Black linework tattoo of an anchor combined with an infinity symbol on the calf of a leg.
Anchor and infinity symbol on a calf
Small black fine line tattoo of a cross passing through a heart outline on the side of an ankle.
Cross and heart on an ankle
Small black and grey seahorse tattoo on the inside of a person's ankle, with dark jeans rolled above it.
Small seahorse tattoo on an ankle
Fine line black tattoo of a paper plane with a dotted trail on the side of a foot, near the ankle.
Paper plane with dotted trail on a foot
Fine line black tattoo of a wavy line and a small animal outline running across an ankle and the top of a foot.
Fine line wave and animal outline on ankle
Small fine line outline tattoo of a seated cat on the outer ankle, with the foot resting on a wooden surface.
Seated cat outline on an ankle

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