Black line drawing of an abstract looped symbol with the word love in flowing script and a small heart beneath, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.

Looped line design with love script

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The design is a single continuous black line forming a tall looped figure with an inner loop, with the word love written in joined script across its base. A small open heart sits at the lower right of the lettering. It is rendered in solid black line on a plain white background with no shading or colour.

Lettering Love Heart Loop Script Symbol

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The sign-writer's brush needed one unbroken pull, Mr Abbott always said, or the letter would look like it had been argued over. I was sixteen that summer, sweeping size off the boards in his workshop behind the Co-op in Maudlin Bay, and I had been given the lettering on the fish merchant's new board because Abbott's hands had begun to shake.

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The fish merchant, Ruddock, wanted something the gulls couldn't read. "Make it loop," he said, "like a kipper's tail." So I drew a single line from the bottom of the board, up through a tall loop, back on itself to make a smaller loop inside, and down again, never lifting, until the figure stood like a woman with her arms over her head or a bell hung upside down. Abbott watched without speaking. Then he took the brush from me and wrote love across the base in joined script, the way his mother had taught him at the Methodist school, and at the lower right he dropped a small open heart that looked caught mid-breath.

Ruddock hated it. He said nobody buys kippers from a heart. Abbott said the board was paid for. For a week it hung above the fish slab with the paint still tacky, and people stopped to read it. Some laughed. Some went quiet and bought the plaice.

On the Saturday Mrs Penhallow came in with a tin of red enamel and asked whether Abbott could do her husband's name on the lifeboat house door. He couldn't. His hands were gone by then. She looked at my unbroken line for a long while and said, "You'll do it, then." I did, and I never lifted the brush once.