Flash sheet of lily and blossom tattoo designs with scroll swirls, some in pink, orange and purple and others in grey pencil and ink, with no body placement shown.

Lily and blossom flash sheet with swirls

Botanical · Mixed · Flash

A sheet of several separate flower designs, mostly lilies with a few smaller blossoms, arranged with curling scroll lines between them. Most designs are outlined in black ink with shading, while the top-left, centre and right-hand groups are coloured in pink, orange and purple. The white background is plain and the composition shows each design as a standalone piece.

Botanical Lily Flower Blossom Swirl Scroll Leaf Bud

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Ada, The lilies came up again behind the Hartley row, three of them, orange-spotted like the ones Mam kept in the tin bath. I thought the dust would finish them off after the winter, but the shale they're planted in is grey as a slate roof and they don't seem to mind. Dad would have called them daft. He called anything that wouldn't die daft.

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The smoke off the screens has been bad since the new shift started. Mr Corbett from the office says the wind will turn by Tuesday, and I believe him about as much as I believe the Board's figures. Still the blossoms open every morning before the hooter, pale at the edges, and I stand at the wash-house door with my tea and count them like rosary beads.

Tom came up at half five with his face black except for the rings round his eyes, the way you used to laugh at Dad. He saw me looking at the flowers and said nothing, just pulled one stem clean and stuck it in the jam jar on the sill. He said the lamp man had told him to bring something back for the table. I told him it was for the table, and he let me have that.

I'm sending you two bulbs wrapped in the Chronicle so the postmaster won't fuss. Plant them somewhere with a bit of sun, and if they don't take, write and tell me, and I'll send you the rest of the row. Your loving sister, Nell.