Black pen sketch of a curved, scalloped arc design with dotted lines and small circles, drawn on white paper; no body placement is shown.

Scalloped arc design sketch in black pen

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A hand-drawn tattoo design in black pen on white paper, shown rotated on its side. A long curved arc runs down the right side, with pointed scalloped lobes, looped inner lines and dotted lines fanning out to small circular terminals. The linework is clean and uniform, in solid and dotted strokes, with no shading or colour.

Arc Scallop Dotted line Lace Sketch

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Win, Mr Pyle sent the pricking back today with the scallops drawn too shallow, every lobe a finger short, so I sat up with the candle pinning the edge over again. Forty-one pins run along the curve, and each one holds a bobbin hung from its eye like a plum off a bough.

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The dotted threads fan out from the point where the long arc comes to its tip, and every pair must be crossed in the same order or the whole fan lies crooked on the pillow. Your grandmother taught me that rule and I have never once broken it. Tell Mr Haddon at the chapel the veil will be ready by the Sunday after next, whatever his nerves say.

Tomorrow the carrier takes this to the station and you should have it by Thursday. The bishop's wife's collar is nearly finished, and when it is done I mean to carry it to London myself, folded in tissue on my lap the whole way, and show it to the woman in the window on Oxford Street who said our work was too old-fashioned for her customers.

Don't fret about the rent. Ask Mrs Abbott for the second loan; she has always liked you. And keep the ends tied off when you work, Win, because a lace with loose ends comes apart in the first wash. Your loving mother, Ada.