Two matching black and grey anchor tattoos on the inner wrists, one plain and one with a bow, in a traditional style on the forearm.

Matching anchor tattoos on two wrists

Traditional · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two inner wrists sit side by side, each with a black and grey anchor tattoo. The left anchor is plain, while the right anchor has a bow tied around its shank. Both use bold outlines with soft grey shading on the flukes and shank, and the designs are centred on each wrist.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody in Saltcombe agreed on who first walked into Ferris's back room with a tide table folded in her pocket and an anchor sketched on the back of it. Ada said it was her idea. Lil said it was hers, and she had the scrape on her knuckle from the argument to prove it. Old Ferris only sighed, wiped his needles on a rag and asked which of them would be sitting still first.

Keep reading

They were both nineteen that spring, both sick of the cannery and the same three boys, and both certain the sea was the only honest thing on the coast. The plan was simple. Lil would crew on her uncle's trawler for the summer, and Ada would keep the mooring lines turning on the quay. Whatever happened to one of them, the other would wear the matching mark, so the sea would have to answer to both of them.

Lil sailed on the Tuesday tide. Ada stayed behind with the ink still stinging and a grey ribbon from her mother's sewing box. Every morning she tied it round the shank of her anchor, and every evening she walked down to the harbour wall to count the boats coming in against the lamps.

In September the trawler limped home one man short, and Lil came up the quay with her sleeve pushed back over her plain anchor. Ada untied the ribbon, pressed it flat between two palms and held out her own wrist. "You'll have to get yours dressed up as well," she said. Lil laughed until she cried, and the ribbon went back into the sewing box, still knotted, ready for the next tide.

More like this

Two small solid black anchor tattoos, one on each of two ankles, resting on a patterned rug.
Small anchor tattoos on two ankles
Black and grey photograph of two hands held together, each with a small fine line anchor tattoo with dotwork detail on the back of the hand.
Matching anchor tattoos on two hands
Black compass rose tattoo on one forearm beside a small black anchor tattoo on the other forearm.
Compass rose and anchor on forearms
Two matching fine line black tattoos of an infinity symbol crossed by an arrow, with the letters R and K, on two inner wrists.
Matching infinity and arrow wrist tattoos
Black and grey ship's wheel tattoo on the inner wrist beside a small black anchor tattoo on the other wrist, photographed against a dark background.
Ship's wheel and anchor on wrists
Fine line black anchor tattoo with a heart at the top and the letters L and M beside the shank, on an ankle.
Anchor with heart and initials on an ankle
Small black fine line anchor tattoo with a heart-shaped ring on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Small anchor with heart near the wrist
Small black fine line anchor tattoo with dashed rope detail on the ankle.
Small anchor tattoo on an ankle
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a sailing ship on rolling waves with a dotted anchor hanging below, on the inner forearm.
Sailing ship and anchor on a forearm
Black and grey fine line anchor tattoos sit on the fingers of two clasped hands, photographed in close up.
Small anchors on two clasped fingers
Black and white photo of two clasped hands, each with a small solid black anchor tattoo on the back of the hand.
Matching anchor tattoos on two hands
Black linework anchor tattoo with a ring at the top and curved flukes, shown on the inner upper arm.
Anchor tattoo on the inner upper arm

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.