Drawn ornamental collar design with a lace-like geometric pattern and a large oval gemstone at the centre, shown on paper.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Lace and gemstone collar design

Geometric · Black and grey · Flash

A detailed drawing of a choker-style collar with a lattice of diamond and cross motifs, teardrop drops and a large oval gemstone at the centre. The linework is fine and precise, with blue-grey shading that gives the gem and drops some depth. The design fills most of the sheet, which is lit from above with a soft vignette at the edges.

Geometric Lace Gemstone Collar Necklace Mandala Teardrop Diamond pattern

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dearest Hester, the snow closed the Tollgate road on Tuesday and it has not reopened, so I am writing by the back parlour window of the Hollin Arms, where the ink keeps freezing in the pot and I must hold the bottle against the stove. Mr Rudd has taken the coach horses into the barn and says we may be marooned until Candlemas. The guests are all accounted for, which is more than I can say for the silver.

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On Wednesday a woman came down from the top room with a collar wrapped in tissue paper and asked me to keep it safe until the thaw. It is black lace worked into a crescent, stiff as a bird's ribcage, with a dark oval stone at its heart and a fringe of teardrop drops that tick against each other when you move. Each diamond in the lattice has a tiny cross set inside it, as if someone counted every stitch twice. She did not say whose it was, and I did not ask. She only said, "Don't let the drops catch the light, it spoils them," and went back up the stairs.

I have kept it in the flour bin, since nobody steals from flour. Last night I took it out and laid it on the table to look, and the lamp caught the gem so that the whole lattice seemed to lift off the paper like frost off a window. I counted the drops. There are twenty-three, and one is missing from the lowest point, where a silver thread has come loose. I am certain I saw the same gap in the drawing she left on the sideboard, folded inside a torn envelope.

So tomorrow I will mend it, and when the road opens I will carry it to the station myself. Do not scold me for meddling. I only want to see the stone go back into the light. Your loving sister, Maud