Black ink line drawing of a rose with stippled centre and leaves inside a geometric wireframe, shown as a tattoo design on paper.

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Geometric rose line drawing

Botanical · Black and grey · Flash

A rose with layered petals, leaves and a trailing ribbon is drawn in black ink inside an open geometric polyhedron frame. The petals use fine hatched and curved linework, while the centre of the flower is built up with stippled dots. The design sits on white paper with two drawing pens and faint sketches at the edges of the frame.

Botanical Geometric Dotwork Rose Geometric frame Leaves Ribbon Stipple

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snow had shut the Hollin Gate road on Tuesday, and by Thursday the landlady of the Coldharbour Inn had stopped pretending the cellar would last. Mabel Eccles counted tins on the kitchen table while the guests sat wrapped in coats by the range. Only the cartographer, Mr Anselm Roe, had not complained, because he had a drawing board wedged between two barrels and a tin of pens he would not let anyone touch.

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On the third night he showed her what he had been working on. It was a rose, drawn from the one that had died in the scullery window box in October and been kept since in a jar of glycerine. He had built a frame around it, a twelve-sided figure he called a polyhedron, its edges fine as hair, so the flower seemed to hang inside a glass that did not exist. The petals were hatched with a steady hand, and the heart of the bloom was a field of dots, thousands of them, each placed with a patience Mabel found almost unkind.

"Why the cage?" she asked. He said the frame was for the weather, that a thing held in exact lines could be kept whatever the snow did outside. She thought of the dead rose and the sacks of flour stacked in the hall, and understood he meant it as comfort. She took his pen without asking and drew a ribbon trailing from the stem, long and slack, the way the old innkeepers tied a dark cloth to the gate of a house that had lost someone.

The road opened on Saturday. Roe rolled the drawing into a tube and paid his reckoning in coins still warm from his pocket. Weeks later Mabel found the jar on the scullery sill with the ribbon still pinned to it, the ink gone grey with damp, and she left it where it was.