Black linework mandala design with five scalloped petals, paisley motifs, dotted borders and hatched edges, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.

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Five-petal mandala flower design

Dotwork · Black and grey · Flash

A symmetrical mandala drawn as a five-petalled flower, with paisley-shaped petals, spiral scrolls and small floral motifs radiating from a central dot. The design uses fine black linework, stippled dots and hatched bands along the outer edge, with no shading or tonal grey. It is set on a plain white background and has a balanced, radial composition.

Dotwork Geometric Mandala Flower Paisley Spiral Dot

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nell had the pattern book open on the kitchen table when the hooter went at Easington, and she did not look up until the second blast, because the paper in front of her had a flower on it and she was counting petals. Five, always five, her grandfather had said. Four made a cross, and a cross was for the chapel. Six was for people who did not know when to stop.

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He had drawn it on the back of a wages slip in 1931, the night before he went down for the last time to the Dunmore seam, and given it to her mother with instructions to keep it flat under the clock. Nothing in the village liked a thing with no beginning, he'd said, so he had started at the middle dot and let the spirals find their own way out. The paisley petals curled like the tops of ferns. Along the rim he had hatched the edge in short strokes, row on row, the way the men counted shifts.

Nell laid a clean sheet over the slip and traced it with a hard pencil, slowly, as he had taught her, until the dots came up through the paper like frost. When she reached the centre she pressed harder than she meant to, and the point skipped into the grain of the table.

The pit had closed in 1992. Her son was in Leeds now, drawing for a firm that made phone cases. He rang on Sundays and asked if she had eaten, and she told him about the flower. He said it looked like something you'd find on a bathroom tile, and she laughed, because it was not, and because she could tell he had already forgotten the hooter. She folded the tracing into the clock case with the wages slip, five petals facing out, and let the house go quiet.