Black ink dotwork line drawing of a rose on a thin stem with two leaves and a cluster of crystals, shown as a tattoo design on paper.

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Rose stem and crystals line drawing

Dotwork · Black and grey · Flash

A single rose on a slender stem with two leaves, drawn in black ink, extends down to a cluster of faceted crystals. The outlines are clean and fine, with the petals and crystal facets filled in with stippled dots for shading. The image is black and white on a plain white sheet, with black marker pens placed around the drawing.

Dotwork Botanical Rose Flower Stem Leaves Crystal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mags had been forty years at the bench above the harbour when the rose first appeared in the rough quartz from the Wheal Ansel level. Nobody had sent it up to her with a flower in it. Her apprentice, Dilys, swore the stone had been whole when it came out of the adit, and then, under the loupe, a stem of pale mineral ran from the base of the cluster and bloomed at its tip into five petals no thicker than eyelashes.

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Dilys wanted to sell it to the man from the Penzance museum. Mags said no, and then she said nothing for a day, which Dilys had learned meant the matter was being decided somewhere below speech. They kept the stone in a tin of wet cotton wool on the windowsill, where the gulls could see it through the glass.

On the fourth morning the rose had opened another petal. Mags took the lamp down and found the stem had lengthened by the width of a hair, creeping along the seam of the crystal towards the window. Dilys said it was growing towards the light, the way bean shoots do in a jar. Mags said that was what the bean shoots would say too.

She cut the stone in the end, but only the crystals, leaving the rose whole, and set the cluster in a plain brass ring that fitted nobody in the village. Dilys still has the ring. The rose, she says, is still open, and the stalk still leans a little further west each spring.