Small fine line tattoo of a rose with a stem wrapped around a knife, in black ink on the inside of an ankle, with a rolled denim cuff above.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Fine line rose and knife on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small black linework tattoo shows a rose bloom in profile with a thin stem that crosses a diagonal knife with a visible handle and blade. The lines are thin and even, with no shading, and the design sits centrally on the ankle. The skin is dark brown with a rolled denim cuff at the top of the frame and a textured white wall behind.

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

Rain had been coming off the Thursday awnings since seven, and Nell Okafor had given up trying to keep the buckets dry. The roses were Dutch and tight in their paper, four for a pound to anyone willing to stand still in the drip. Her father's knife lay on the crate beside the scales, its handle wrapped in black tape gone soft from years of wet hands, and she kept reaching for it without thinking, the way you reach for a banister on stairs.

Keep reading

Mr Abbott from the cheese stall ducked under her edge with his umbrella held sideways against the wind. He asked why she bothered cutting the stems at all when the customers only wanted the heads. Nell turned a bloom in her fingers and said that a stem cut straight across sealed itself on the water, but one cut on the slant could still drink, and a rose that drank would last until Sunday. He laughed and said that was the trouble with everything: you had to take a little off before anything would keep.

By four the cloud had thinned to a grey ribbon over the church spire, and only three roses were left. A woman in a yellow mac asked for the last one for her sister's window box, and Nell trimmed it on the slant in one clean pass, the blade sliding past the thorns. She wrapped it in brown paper and handed it over with the change. Then she wiped the knife on her apron, laid it on the dry crate, and watched the light come out sideways across the wet cobbles, catching every puddle like a dropped coin.

More like this

Small black fine line tattoo of a cat with whiskers on the outer ankle, beside the heel, on a bare foot photographed against a pale background.
Small cat outline on an ankle
Fine line black tattoo on an ankle showing a curved line, a dotted arc and a small outlined diamond below, with jeans rolled above.
Fine line dotted arc and diamond on an ankle
Fine line black ink bow tattoo wrapped around a woman's ankle, with bare feet on a dark wooden deck.
Fine line bow tattoo on an ankle
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
Fine line black tattoo of two outlined hands, one reaching up and one below holding its wrist, on the calf above a black sock and brown boot.
Two outlined hands on a lower leg
Close-up of a fine line black tattoo of a small leafy sprig with two leaves on the outer ankle, in a botanical style.
Small leaf sprig on an ankle
Fine line black tattoo of a violin outline on the inside of a lower leg, just above the ankle, with a gold strappy sandal visible below.
Violin outline on an ankle
Black ink tattoo of three bird silhouettes on a branch with a small spiral on the toe, shown on the top of a foot.
Birds on a branch across a foot
Fine line black tattoo of a small elephant raising its trunk towards three solid hearts, placed on the lower leg above the ankle.
Elephant and hearts near the ankle
Fine line black tattoo of an arrow with a diamond tip and feathered fletching, framed by dotted curves, on the back of a person's ankle.
Fine line arrow with dotted curves on an ankle
Black linework geometric unicorn tattoo rearing up on the ankle, made of straight faceted lines.
Geometric unicorn on the ankle
Fine line tattoo of a pink flower bud on a thin black stem with two leaves, placed on the ankle.
Small pink bud on an ankle

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