Black and grey Traditional-style rose tattoo on one thigh and an ornate cameo frame with roses on the other, both worn with black stockings.

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Rose and cameo tattoos on thighs

Traditional · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A black and white photograph of two thighs, one with a bold black rose and leaves and the other with an ornate scrollwork frame enclosing a profile and a rose. The linework is solid and dark with some shading in the petals and frame, and the ornate border is detailed. The image is tightly cropped on the thighs, with a hand adjusting a black stocking and garter straps in the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Don't you touch that frame, boy, not till I've finished the knot. Aye, the one with the lady in it. Her name was Hester Vane, and she sat for the miniature the summer before the Thessaly sailed from Gravesend. The painter, a thin man with ink under every nail, gave her a rose to hold because she would not keep her hands still.

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Three months out, somewhere south of the Cape, the rose went brown at the edges. The cook swore it was the damp. The mate swore it was a curse. Old Ruddock, who had scratched the scrollwork into that brass case with a penknife in the forecastle, said nothing at all. He only turned the case over in his palm each night and listened to the hull working against the swell, the way a man listens for a cough in the next room.

When we came into the Bight with our sails in rags, the wind dropped flat as a plate and the sea went the colour of pewter. Ruddock climbed to the foretop with the frame clenched in his teeth. He came down with nothing in his hands but a flat, wet scrap of card. The rose had lifted clean off and drifted down to the water, and the lady's profile was still there, looking out at the horizon, quite calm, as if she had only ever been waiting for the sea to give her back.

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