I Know My Value lettering in a profile silhouette

Lettering · Mixed · Flash

A black silhouette of a woman in profile wears a red wide-brimmed hat and has red lips. The words I KNOW MY VALUE are set into the silhouette in white, with the large word KNOW running down the face and the hair and neck filled with curling white linework. The design uses flat solid areas of black and red with a white lettering overlay on a plain white background.

Lettering Woman Profile Silhouette Hat Lip Lettering Phrase

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The toll-keeper at Harrow Gap had set her price at one silver penny a mule, and for thirty years nobody had argued with her. Then a drover called Tomas Eberle came up the pass in May with forty sheep and a grin, and told her the road belonged to the king's men, not to a widow with a gate and a chalk board.

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She did not raise her voice. She asked him what his sheep would fetch at the market in Sallow, and he told her, and she said that was a fair price for sheep that had walked two hundred miles on bruised feet. Then she asked what the same sheep would fetch if the pass was shut in snow and the buyers had gone home. He stopped grinning.

She named a toll of two pennies a head, which was a third less than the king's men wanted and three times what she had ever charged. He tried to beat her down. She let him talk until the light went orange on the ridge, then folded her hands and said the gate stayed shut until he paid, and that she could wait longer than sheep could.

He paid. She wrote the count in chalk on the lintel, the way her mother had, and beside it she cut a small mark for each coin, so that the next person who came asking would see the price had never once been a gift. In the morning the snow came down over Harrow Gap, and she slept well.