Two solid black circular tribal designs with spiral motifs and a central wave-like symbol, shown as line art on a white background.

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Two circular tribal spiral designs

Blackwork · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows two versions of the same circular design drawn in solid black on a white background. Each has a ring of curled spiral and hooked shapes around a central motif with flowing, wave-like forms. The design is bold and high contrast, with no shading or grey tones.

Blackwork Geometric Tribal Spiral Circle Sun Pattern Wave

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The fog came down on Scarrow Haven in the third week of October, thick as wet wool, and the whole fleet was still out past the Tongue. Old Tamsin Rooke had painted a sun on the bow of every boat that year, a ring of hooked spirals curling like a breaking wave, with a knot of swell at its heart. Her husband said it was no good for catching mackerel. Tamsin said it was for getting home.

That night the bell at the lifeboat house rang on and on, and the boats that could hear it came in slow, one by one, feeling their way by the sound. The Wren did not come. Abel Corran had her out with three lads who had never been frightened of anything, and the bell could not reach them past the swell. Tamsin took her coble out on the ebb with nobody to stop her. She did not look at the compass. She looked at the water, the way the spirals turned back on themselves, and she rowed where the swell curled the wrong way, which is how you know you are near the rocks. Somewhere out there a hook of white came up under her oar, then a dark hull, then four cold men shouting her name.

Next morning she painted a second ring around the sun on the Wren's bow, a little wider than the first, with four more spirals in it. Four she had carried home, she said. Nobody argued with her about that.