Black and grey realism tattoo of a geisha with ornate hair pieces and lace trim on a forearm.

Geisha portrait with lace on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A woman with an elaborate upswept hairstyle and floral hair ornaments is shown in a portrait, with loose strands falling across her face and shoulders. Shading is soft and smooth on the skin and face, with fine dark linework on the hair and flowers, and a lace-trimmed bodice at the bottom of the design. The tattoo runs along a forearm in greys and black, with a plain light background behind it.

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Pin the chignon first, Nell, or the combs will slide off before the second act. Ada said it without looking up from the bodice, her needle going in and out of the black net as though it had a mind of its own. The Teahouse number ran nine nights at the Palace Varieties, and every night the same girl stood under the lamp with her hair built up like a pagoda and her face powdered the colour of milk. Nobody in the stalls ever asked what the lace was for.

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Nell had been in the wardrobe room since the spring, sent up from the lace finishers on Waltham Street with cotton-stained fingers and a tin of her mother's bobbins. Ada found the pattern on the first Thursday, a run of small scalloped rosettes that nobody in the building had sewn since old Mrs Crake died. 'Who taught you that?' Nell shrugged. 'Mam did. She said it was for weddings, and for funerals when the money ran short.' Ada said nothing, but she let the girl keep the collar.

On the last night of the run the stage manager shouted for the flowers, and the chrysanthemum combs went out on their velvet cushion one by one. Ada watched from the prompt side as the girl bent to the footlights, the loose strands at her temple catching the light, and she thought of nothing at all except whether the bodice would hold through the bow.

Afterwards, in the cold dressing room, Nell unpicked a single rosette from the collar and folded it into her purse. 'For the weddings,' she said. Ada took off her spectacles and pretended to look for the spare pins.

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