Loyalty script tattoo on forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo spells the word Loyalty in large, flowing script across the forearm, with the letters outlined and filled in dark ink. Swirling swash lines extend above and below the lettering, and soft grey shading gives the letters depth. The forearm fills most of the frame against a red t-shirt, with a partial view of another tattoo at the right edge.

Lettering Forearm Script Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

"Load the brush again," Ada said, "and don't touch the L until your wrist has stopped arguing with you." Len had been at the bench since seven, and the board across the trestles was still bare oak apart from the pencil ghost of the word. The commission had come up the hill from the lifeboat house on Tuesday, a lad in oilskins carrying a rolled drawing under his arm as if it might bite.

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She showed him the swash first, a long lazy loop that started under the y and climbed back over the top of the word like a kite string. "You never lift off the stroke," she said. "The line comes round and meets itself. If it doesn't meet, the whole thing falls over."

Len asked why the coxswain wanted it in script at all, when plain capitals would have read clearer from the slipway. Ada wiped her brush on a rag and didn't answer straight away. Frank Dunn had brought his crew in from a gale in '47 with one oar left and a man in the bilge who wouldn't stop singing. He had sat in that chair by the stove and told her he wanted the word to look like it had been written by someone with time to spare.

By dusk the last tail was closing under the g, the black paint gone glossy and then dull as the light went. Len reached for the tin of gold leaf. "Leave the gold," Ada said. "It's enough that they can see it from the water."