Sheet of mehndi-style temporary tattoo designs in rose-brown ink on white, featuring paisleys, lotus motifs, mandalas and flower clusters.

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Mehndi-style paisley and lotus temporary tattoo sheet

Botanical · Colour · Flash

A sheet of temporary tattoo designs showing paisleys, lotus and mandala motifs, and clusters of small flowers, drawn as fine outlines. The linework is detailed and symmetrical, with some pieces built from repeated leaf and dot patterns. The designs are printed in a single rose-brown ink on a plain white background, with a product code printed in the bottom corner.

Botanical Paisley Lotus Mandala Flower Leaf Filigree Henna

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The parcel from Leicester came on a Tuesday, flat and brown, and my aunt Tamsin unfolded it on the net-shed counter between a coil of tarred twine and a jar of lead sinkers. Inside was a single white sheet covered in rose-brown lotuses, paisleys shaped like seed pods, and clusters of small flowers that looked as though someone had stamped them with a thimble. She turned it over, checked the back, then held it to the window as if the harbour light might reveal a message written underneath.

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'Nobody posts pattern for nothing,' she said. 'Somebody wants something.' I told her it was probably a sample, and she said samples came in boxes. For a week the sheet lay under the tide tables. I kept catching her with it, tracing a lotus with the blunt end of a marlinspike, her lips moving as she counted the petals. In forty years she had never drawn anything but knots and the outlines of boats.

On the Saturday the wind swung north and the fleet came in early, six boats with their holds full of mackerel. Tamsin was on the slipway before anyone else, the sheet folded inside her oilskin. When the skipper's wife asked after the parcel, Tamsin took a fine pen from her apron and began copying the flowers onto the back of a rope tag, dot by dot, with the same care she gave a bowline. By dusk half the women on the quay had a paisley curling up the inside of one wrist.

When the tide turned that night she was the only one still awake, sitting on the bollard with her arm turned to the lamp. The rose-brown petals had gone soft at the edges, the way ink does when it is meant to fade. She said nothing, only folded the empty sheet into a boat and set it on the water, and watched the flood take it out past the breakwater.