Black and grey botanical tattoo of a cluster of roses on the outer thigh, shown in a black and white photo.

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Rose cluster on a thigh

Botanical · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows a cluster of roses on the outer thigh, drawn with fine outlines and soft grey shading. The rose heads are layered and partly overlap, with leaves and petals filling the space beside them. The image is black and white, cropped to the upper legs, with a knitted jumper and dark underwear visible above the tattoo.

Botanical Thigh Rose Flower

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Hush now, and mind the flour on the step, for the ovens are not yet lit and the street is still asleep. Let me tell you about the Quill bakery on Harrow Lane, before the bell at the corner goes and nobody can hear a word over the carts.

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Tobias Quill grew three damask bushes against the back wall of his shop, their heads so heavy they nodded over the gutter like lanterns. Each morning before the first loaf went in, he cut the blooms in the dark, stripped the petals into a copper pan and let them steep in warm water until the kitchen smelled of June in the middle of February. His daughter Ada pressed the petals into the honey cakes with her thumb, one by one, and the carters queued down to the chapel for a bag of them.

The year the mill burned, the frost came in April and blackened every bush to the root. Quill sat on the back step with his cap in his hands and did not go in for a week. Then Ada walked to the churchyard wall with a kitchen knife and a jam jar of water, and came home with a cutting no longer than her finger, wrapped in wet newspaper. Her father laughed for the first time since the fire, because he knew that wall. His own mother had planted roses there before she left the village, and nobody had dared to pull them out.

The bell at the corner rings now. Quill's loaves go out at six, each honey cake with a petal pressed into its crust, and if you ever bite one and taste June in February, you will know the bush on the churchyard wall has been carried a long way by a girl with a jam jar.