Realistic tattoo of a red gash closed with metal stitches across the wrist, with a black outline cartoon figure tattooed above it on the forearm.

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Stitched wound tattoo on a wrist

Realism · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A photograph of a realistic-style tattoo of a split wound closed with silver stitches, wrapping across the wrist. The red flesh is shaded with darker tones and grey highlights to give depth, and the stitches are rendered in grey with dark outlines. Above it, a black outline figure with legs and feet is visible on the forearm, against a pale, plain background.

Realism Forearm Stitches Blood

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Gather in, gather in, and mind the sawdust, because this is the story of Ada Pinnock and the tin man above the coconut shy. You'll have seen him, the little fellow with the striped trousers and the wooden feet, nailed up there since before your grandmothers were born. Nobody pays him any heed. But on the last night of the August fair, when the lamps were guttering and the rain came sideways off the marsh, he began to walk.

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He came down the stall boards one plank at a time, clack, clack, and he wanted his stitches back. Ada had been mending canvas since she was nine, and she had a fine hand with a needle, but that night the big top split along a seam where the wind got under it, and she caught her wrist on an iron tent peg. It opened like a purse. The only thread to hand was her mother's silver, so she sewed herself shut on the caravan step, biting her lip and counting under her breath.

The tin man reached the step and held out one small hand. He did not want paying. He wanted her to finish what she had started, because a stitch left half done is a door left open, and he knew that better than anyone. He had been left unfinished himself for forty years, his paint flaking where nobody bothered to touch it up.

So Ada knotted the thread, once, then twice, and the rain stopped. By morning the cut had closed into a neat silver seam, and the tin man stood still again above the coconut shy, looking very pleased with his work. Ada still wears that seam, and the coconuts have never once rolled off their shelves since.