Fine line black botanical vine with leaves and small flowers wrapping around a wrist, photographed against a window blind.

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Leafy vine band on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A thin band of leafy vine with small flowers wraps around the inner wrist and lower forearm. The linework is fine and delicate, with shaded leaves and dotted florets giving some depth. The ink is black and the design sits in a narrow strip against the skin, with the wrist turned toward a window with horizontal blinds behind it.

Fine line Botanical Forearm Vine Leaves Flower Sprig Wrist band

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The cider apples had been dropping since Tuesday, and by the time you reached the gate at Pennick's orchard the grass under the old Bramley trees was bruised brown with them. Mrs Ferriter stood among the rows with a wicker basket on her hip, pretending she had not been waiting. 'You're late,' she said. 'Your father was never late for a picking in his life.'

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She handed you the secateurs without ceremony and pointed at the hedge of wild clematis along the lane, grown so thick over the blackthorn that it had swallowed a rusted gate. 'Cut me a length of that. Not the flowering bit, the green whip underneath. Leaves on it every few inches, and keep the stalk long.' You asked what for. She only smiled, the way she did when she was about to win an argument. 'Wrap it round your wrist and tell me it doesn't hold.'

You cut the whip and the sap ran sharp and green down your thumb. The leaves were serrated and tough, the tiny florets already going to seed. You wound the stem twice around your wrist and tucked the end under itself, and it held, pricking just enough to remind you it was alive. Mrs Ferriter nodded as though she had settled a bet with the orchard itself.

'Now you're bound to come back for the windfalls,' she said, and took the basket from your hands. That evening the low sun came through her kitchen blinds in bars across the table, and the vine stayed green long after the apples had gone soft in the crates. Every September after, you came back to Pennick's, and every year the clematis had grown over the gate again before you did.