Black and white photo of a small fine line snowflake tattoo with dotted tips on the upper chest, near a thin chain necklace.

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Fine line snowflake on the upper chest

Fine line · Chest · Black and grey · Photo

A small snowflake sits on the upper chest near the collarbone, drawn with thin, delicate linework and dots at the tips of its branches. The photograph is black and white, so the ink appears as dark grey and black against the skin. The tattoo is centred in the frame, with a fine necklace chain and the edge of a black top visible around it.

Fine line Geometric Chest Snowflake Necklace

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The winter the harbour skinned over at its edges, Mairi Dunnet walked down to the quay each morning with a cold lamp and a horn loupe, looking for the one thing the town had stopped believing in. Old Tam the net-mender said a snowflake that came down onto open water would not last the day, and that the sea kept them for itself. Nobody had ever seen one reach the boats whole.

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On the ninth morning she caught one on the dark wool of her sleeve and held the lamp close. It had six arms, each finer than sewing thread, and every arm ended in a small dot, like the full stop a careful clerk leaves after a name. She counted them twice. Then she carried it down the slip to where Angus Reid was readying his father's boat for the fog that always came after the frost, and she told him to look at it and not at the water.

He looked, and he said the arms were all different, which was true. Mairi said that was why the harbour had never frozen through, because the sea had been too busy trying to copy them and getting every one wrong. The boy laughed and asked if that was a fable, and she said no, it was only the weather, told properly.

By spring the flake was gone from her sleeve, but the harbour master had entered it in the tide book beside the date, six lines drawn with a dip pen and a dot at each tip. Angus took the boat out in the fog that year and came back without losing a single lobster pot. The book is still kept in the office by the swing bridge, and the page is still the one people turn to first.