A sheet of gold, silver and black metallic temporary tattoo designs, including chevron bands, a heart, a cross and zigzag strips.

Metallic temporary tattoo sheet with chain and geometric

Geometric · Mixed · Flash

The sheet shows eight narrow strip designs printed in gold, silver and black foil on a clear plastic backing. They include chevron bands, rectangular links, a studded band, a heart-topped chain, diamond and bow motifs, zigzag lines with dots, and a chain ending in a cross. The flat, evenly lit layout is shown from directly above with no body part visible.

Geometric Chevron Chain Heart Cross Diamond Zigzag Bracelet

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit yourself down by the stove, and mind the cat, she's been at the herring again. You'll want to hear about Wilfred Tarrant's chain shop on Quay Street, because it was there the silver got into the gold. He made links for the lifeboat men and the fishing fleet, square links for the rigging, and every spring he made a little something for the girls who came in from the cannery at Scrae. Hearts, mostly. A heart at the head of a chain, the way you'd sign a letter.

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One March a cannery girl called Ada came in with her wages in a stocking and asked for a thing that would look like the sea at dusk but would not sink. Wilfred laughed and said nobody made such a thing. So she sat on the stool with a sheet of stamped foil, black for the night and silver for the gulls, and watched him hammer out the chevrons, row on row, like herring bones on the slipway. At the end he stamped a gold cross, for her grandmother, who had waited on that quay forty years for a boat that never came in.

Ada wore the design three days. On the fourth the wind came round to the north-east and tore the tin roof off the cannery, and the girls stood in the rain watching the empty boats rock at their moorings. Ada held her hands together and said nothing at all.

Wilfred kept the spare sheet in his drawer, and folk say that's why every lamp post on the harbour wall still has a silver zigzag scratched at its base. Now your tea's gone cold, so drink it up, and mind the step going out.