Black and grey dotwork mandala tattoo split across the inner ankles and tops of both feet, with a flower-like design.

Split mandala tattoo across both ankles

Dotwork · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A dotwork mandala with a floral pattern is split across two bare feet, so each half sits on the inner ankle and top of the foot. The design uses fine black stippling for the petals and teardrop shapes, with solid outlines and lighter areas around the central rosette. The feet rest on a white textured towel, and the dark red toenail polish contrasts with the grey ink.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Right, sit down, the lot of you, the urn's on and nobody leaves until I've finished. You remember Miss Pardoe's needlework room, the one that smelled of Dettol and wet wool? Two girls shared a lacemaker's pattern book in the back row, Ada Lumb and Winifred Scarr, and they were never once seen apart. Miss Pardoe gave them a single sheet of pricked paper, a rosette worked in dots, and said it could only be finished by two pairs of hands.

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So they pricked it through with a darning needle and cut it down the middle, each keeping a half. Every dot was a pin hole, and the teardrops were the seeds of a poppy that only grew in the Lumb garden before the frost. Ada said the halves would meet again if they stood side by side with their feet together. Winifred laughed and said that was a fairy story for babies.

Years later, at the Co-op hall dance, the two of them sat on the bottom step with their shoes kicked off, and somebody noticed the lino by the door had a faint ring of pinholes where they'd pressed their ankles together. Nobody could say who had drawn the design first. Ada went out to Canada on a boat, Winifred stayed and kept the house on Carr Lane, and the paper went into the drawer with the hymn books.

Mind your feet on the stairs going out tonight. The lino's still got the pattern, if you know where to stand.

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