Fine line botanical tattoo of a lavender sprig in purple and green on a calf.

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Lavender sprig on a lower leg

Fine line · Calf · Colour · Photo

A single lavender sprig with two purple flower spikes rises from a thin green stem with small green leaves. The linework is fine and the purple petals are shaded softly, with green used for the stem and leaves. The tattoo sits on a pale leg against a dark fabric and brown background, with the sprig angled diagonally up the frame.

Fine line Botanical Calf Lavender Sprig Flower Leaves Stem Plant

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mabel Crake pinned two sprigs of lavender to her bodice that Saturday, because her mother had told her one was for asking and the other for answering. The dance was in the old granary at Harrowmere, where the floor was swept with salt and the rafters hung with bundles drying upside down. The fiddler had come over the moor that week. His name was Tom Eyre, and he played with his eyes shut, as if the tune were a road he had walked many times and could not see.

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He danced with her three times. Each turn crushed a little more lavender against her collar, so that by the third reel the whole barn smelled of it and the other girls began to sneeze and laugh. Mabel did not laugh. She asked him where he slept. He said in the ferry house at the weir, where nobody had lived since the flood took the boatman, and he smiled as if that were an answer and not a warning.

She walked down at first light with a basket and a lantern she did not need. The ferry house door hung open. Inside there was a bench, a cold hearth and a single stem of lavender laid across the seat, its flowers still purple, its green leaves still wet with river. Beside it lay the fiddle case, closed, and on the lid someone had written in chalk, for the answering.