Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a horse head in an ornate bridle with a purple feather plume, on the upper arm.

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Horse head with feather plume on upper arm

Neo-trad · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A horse head wearing an ornate bridle with beaded straps, pendants and a round medallion dominates the arm, with a large plume of purple and pink feathers rising above it. The horse's face is shaded with soft grey and skin-tone blends, while the bridle and feathers use bold dark outlines and flat colour fills. The design fills the upper arm and shoulder, shot against a dark background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, love, and mind the brass rail, it's still warm from the lamps. You want the one about the grey mare on Saltmarrow Bridge, the night the gas went out across the whole river. Everyone on the fair knew she could walk if she was asked properly, but nobody asked her except Hester Dunn, who sold tickets from the booth by the carousel and had hands like wet paper from counting coppers.

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The mare was called Pell. Old Tobiah Quill carved her from a single length of ash and hung her bridle with silver medallions and jet beads bought off a coachman's widow. Her plume was real ostrich, dyed the colour of a bruise at dawn, and on thick nights it rose above her head like smoke off a struck match. She stood still while the organ played. But on still nights, when the lamps dimmed and the river went quiet, she stepped down from her pole and went clattering over the cobbles, ears pricked, looking for someone to carry.

That November the lamplighter went off to France and nobody lit the bridge. Hester went out alone at midnight, shawl pinned tight, and laid her hand on the bridle the way you'd touch a sleeping dog. Pell knelt. They rode up over the slate roofs, past the chimneys, and stopped beside the clock tower where the hands had frozen at ten to twelve. Hester asked to be taken home. Pell tipped her head, and one bead dropped into Hester's palm, warm as a sixpence. Then she carried her down again, feathers streaming like a flare.

Hester sold tickets for another forty years. Every dusk she set one jet bead on the sill of the booth, and every morning it was gone, and in its place a single lamp was burning on the bridge, steady until the grey came up over the water.

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