Three people show matching black Celtic knot tattoos on their forearms, each with a coloured outline in green, blue or purple.

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Matching Celtic knot tattoos on three forearms

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Three forearms are shown side by side, each with the same knot design in black linework. Each knot has a thin coloured outline in green, blue or purple, set against bare skin and dark clothing. The composition frames all three tattoos at a similar scale, with even lighting across the arms.

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The thaw came late to Carrow Hill that year, and the three Pryce girls were still breaking ice on the trough when their grandmother sent for them. She sat by the range with three hanks of undyed wool across her knees and three pots going on the hob behind her. Nettle for green, woad for blue, bilberry for the dark purple that stained the fingers for a week. She dipped each hank herself and hung them on the line to dry stiff as board.

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She told them the knot was old, older than the farm, and that it would hold only while all three held the cord. Ruth, the eldest, asked what it was for. Her grandmother said it was for the night the snow came over the top field and nobody could see the gate. Then she tied the three cords together in a loop, knotted them into the shape of a hooked heart with a tail, and sent them out to the barn.

The storm came on the Tuesday. Ruth went down to the beck for the ewes with the rope round her wrist, and the other two braced in the doorway with the far end fast around the post. When the wind took her off her feet, they did not let go. Her grandmother's knot, which had looked so slight on the hob, drew tight as a fist and held the three of them to the ground until the lamp in the kitchen window found them. In the morning the frost had furred the glass, and the marks of green, blue and purple still showed through it, faint as the wool that made them.

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