Close photo of black fine script lettering reading Moment on the inner forearm, with a pendant necklace and a bare shoulder visible.

Script lettering on a forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a forearm with flowing black script lettering, where the first word reads Moment and the next word is cut off by the frame. The lettering is crisp and thin with a handwritten feel, set against warm, slightly filtered skin tones. A delicate pendant necklace and a bare shoulder sit at the left of the frame.

Lettering Forearm Script Word Lettering Quote

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nell,

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I found the old sign-writer's brushes in the bottom of the lorry this morning, wrapped in a tea towel gone the colour of weak tea. You'll remember Mr Greaves, who lettered every fairground ride on the circuit for thirty years with a hand so steady he could paint a name on a moving carousel. He left them to me when his chest gave out in Doncaster. I've spent the afternoon trying to match his loops on the back of a feed sack, and failing, and failing better each time.

The Harvest Fair opens Saturday, and Mrs Tilly wants a new sign over the tea tent, something sweet that folk will stop for. I told her I'd do it in the old copperplate, the thin strokes that thicken where the pen turns. She said nobody reads that sort of thing any more. I said somebody always does, if it's fine enough.

So here is my plan. I'll write the words in pencil first, then go over them in black, and on the last one I'll let the brush run out of ink so the final letters fade off the board, the way the sun does off a summer dress. Moment, the first word will say, and I'll leave the rest to the wind to finish. Mrs Tilly can argue with the wind.

Come early Saturday. Bring the good flask. I'll save you the stool by the paint pots.

All my love, Jo