Black ink line drawing of a geometric lotus with an infinity knot centre and hanging triangles, shown as a fine line tattoo design on white paper beside a black pen.

Lotus and infinity knot tattoo design on paper

Fine line · Black and grey · Flash

A fine black ink line drawing of a symmetrical lotus-style motif, with an infinity knot at its centre and layered petal shapes radiating outwards. Thin vertical lines with small circles and triangular drops hang below the central motif and extend to the sides, with a horizontal line forming the top edge. The design is drawn in black on a plain off-white background with a black pigment liner pen placed to the right, and no colour is present.

Fine line Geometric Lotus Mandala Triangle Petal Line drawing

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The band had packed up for the interval, so Nell Harrow sat on the edge of the stage with a dance card on her knee and a pen that Mr Cavendish swore was the finest in Scarborough. Her father cut patterns for the tailors on Vale Street, and he had taught her that a line should never be lifted until it had finished its work. She was trying to draw the lotus that had come to her during the foxtrot, its petals opening outwards from the middle like the ballroom's glass doors.

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At the centre she set the knot, two loops folding back on themselves so that a finger could follow them forever without reaching an end. Dolores Ashby, who ran the cloakroom, leaned over and said it looked like a pair of dancers who had given up on the step. Nell laughed, but she didn't rub it out. She let a thin line drop from each side of the flower and ended each one with a small ring and a point, the way the chandeliers hung from their chains.

When the band returned, the floor filled with couples turning in the same slow circle. Nell kept drawing until the last petal closed. Then she folded the card so the design sat on the inside, where only the holder would see it. She gave it to the young man from the seafront stall who had asked her to dance twice and never once come back to claim a second.

He opened it under the lights the next evening and found that the knot had no start and no finish, and that the pen had never once left the paper.