Two legs covered in black and grey tattoos including roses, a crown and script lettering, with the thigh and calf visible.

Multiple black and grey tattoos on both legs

Traditional · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

Both legs are covered in many small and medium tattoos, including a large rose on the outer thigh, a crown, a rose with leaves lower down, and several script lettering pieces. The linework is bold and the shading is soft grey, with the designs spread across the thighs, knees and calves. The photograph is taken from above with the legs crossed at the ankles, a book on the floor and a wicker chair edge at the right.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Hannah had been trying to make a rose take against the back wall of the chandler's yard for three winters. Every grower on Cobb Lane said the stock was wrong, the soil was sour and the wall faced the wrong way. She kept at it anyway with a penknife and a jar of wet sacking, cutting slips from whatever climbed over the churchyard gate.

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In October a stranger came up the lane with a cart of ink and iron filings, selling cures for warts and bad tempers. He stopped to watch her graft and laughed at the crooked union. "That wants a crown on it," he said, tapping the stem with a grubby nail. "Roses wear what they're given, or they wear what they take." She told him to mind his cart. He left a folded scrap on the step before he went, and on it, in a careful copperplate hand, were the words SELF MADE, with a small sketch of a bloom ringed by thorns.

She laughed at it for a week. Then in March the graft held, one pale shoot pushing out of the bark, and by June the bush had thrown a single dark red flower so heavy it bowed the wall. The neighbours came to look and nobody asked about the paper. Hannah pressed the bloom between the pages of the chandler's ledger, and when she lifted it out the ink of the crown had bled through to the back board, a ring of neat little points.

Every spring after, she found a new scrap on the step. The hand never changed, and it always spelled her name right.

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