Tibetan script lettering design

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

A standalone design of several lines of black Tibetan script arranged in a single row across the centre of a plain white background. The strokes are solid and uniform in weight, with clean edges and no shading. The composition is simple, with a large empty white area below the lettering.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, you at the back, the good part is always where the draught can't reach you. Before the tin roof went on the hall at Dzongri Gap, there was a banner hung over the stage, black letters on white cloth, and nobody in the valley could read them except the schoolmaster's wife, who had come up from Lhasa with a trunk of books and a temper to match.

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The letters spelt a line the dancers took for a blessing and the young men took for a dare. Each winter the Losar dance ended with the lamps turned low and the fiddler playing the slow tune, and each winter a girl named Sonam Wangmo would stand under the banner and try to read it aloud before the last note faded. She never managed the whole line. She got as far as the first stroke of the third word and lost her nerve, because the script was thick as rope and she was certain a mistake would bring the snow early.

The schoolmaster's wife, who was dying that year and knew it, sat her down on a bench and said, the letters are only the shape of a sound you already know. Say the sound. Don't read the ink. So the girl stood under the cloth and said the sound, plain as a goat calling across a ridge, and the fiddler, who had never once kept time, came in exactly on her last syllable.

That was the winter the hall stopped needing the banner. The cloth rotted long ago, but the tune still ends on that breath. If you listen when the lamps go down, you can hear the shape of the words in the floorboards, and say them yourself, without knowing what they mean at all.