Black and white flash sheet of rows of geometric symbols, including diamonds, triangles, checkerboard lattices and crosses, shown as tattoo design drawings with no body placement.

Geometric symbol flash sheet in black

Geometric · Black and grey · Flash

The image is a sheet of rows containing many geometric symbols drawn in solid black and white. Designs include diamonds, triangles, checkerboard and hatched lattices, zigzag bands, crosses and stylised figure-like shapes, each set against a plain white background. The linework is bold and mostly filled, with fine cross-hatching and dotted accents in some motifs, arranged in an even, symmetrical layout.

Geometric Diamond Triangle Lattice Zigzag Cross Symbol Pattern Chevron Dot

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

No, leave the red on the spindle, that is for the feast and the feast is not yet. Hand me the comb. Look at its teeth, worn to a smile by three mothers before me. Sit close, the lamp is smoking, and I will not weave by bad light for the miller's widow, not even if she brings the good tea.

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She wanted a carpet that would bring her husband home. He had gone south with the salt caravan in the month of the late snow, and every night since she had sat in the doorway counting the stars that were not his lamp. I told her a carpet cannot walk. She said the old women always claimed a carpet could hold a road, so I took her coins and began. The diamonds go first, one nested inside another, the way the ridge folds into the valley. Then the checkerboard for the terraced fields, the zigzag for the river you cross only at the shallow place, and at the foot a little triangle, a tent with its flap tied shut against the wind.

By the third week the knots were tight and the pattern was whole, and I saw I had made a map with no way out. Every line led back into itself. So I unpicked the centre diamond one thread at a time and left it bare, a square of warp with no colour in it at all. My mother said you leave a gap in a carpet so the spirit can get out. I told the widow it was so her husband could walk in.

She did not thank me. She rolled the carpet onto the flat roof and lay down in the bare square, her cheek on the threads, and when the sun came over the ridge the dots of salt along the border caught the light like a row of small lamps. Two days later a man came up the goat track with his hat in his hands. I heard her breath catch and then let go, and I went back to my loom.