Black line drawing of a vertical vine design with curling swirls, teardrop petals and small dots, in a fine line style.

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Vertical swirl and petal vine design

Fine line · Black and grey · Flash

A vertical design of black linework showing curling scrolls connected by a thin stem, with teardrop-shaped petals and two small five-petal flowers. Small dots are scattered along the sides. The lines are even and uniform in weight, and the drawing is in black ink on a plain white background with no shading.

Fine line Botanical Swirl Vine Flower Petal Dot Scroll

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody at the reunion could say who had planted the vine on the schoolyard wall, only that it had been there since the year the old headmistress retired, and that its scrolls curled tighter every autumn. Maud Tennant came back to Ashby Road with a carrier bag of jam jars and found the wall cut back to the brick, the stems bagged and stacked by the bins.

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"They said it was ivy," she told the men from the council. "It was never ivy. Ivy doesn't put out flowers with five petals."

The caretaker's grandson said his nan kept a cutting in a biscuit tin on her windowsill, and that if you held a stem to your ear at dusk you could hear the girls who had sat under it reciting their times tables. Maud did not believe that. She believed in the dots, which had always appeared along the wall in pairs after a name was forgotten, and in the teardrop petals, which dropped one by one onto the dinner trays of anyone who had lied about their homework.

She took the cutting home in a jam jar of rainwater and set it by the sink. Three weeks later the stem had found the window latch and the scroll at its tip had unrolled into a small white fist of flower. Maud rang Gwen, who had sat beside her in form four and never once come to a reunion. Gwen answered on the second ring, and the first thing she said was, "Is it back, then?"