Black handwritten script reading Wander with a full stop, drawn as a fine line lettering design on a plain white background.

Wander handwritten script lettering design

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

A handwritten script design reading Wander followed by a full stop. The thin, slightly uneven black linework is drawn on a plain white background, with no skin or body visible. It is a monochrome drawing with no shading beyond the strokes.

Lettering Fine line Word Script

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Maud, the Sorrel is four days out from Valparaiso and the cook has finally stopped asking me to pick the weevils from the biscuit. You will think I have gone soft, but I have been watching the way the second mate writes up the log each night, pen held as if it might escape him, and I have decided that is what a proper hand looks like.

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He taught me the trick of it. Do not hurry the downstrokes, he said, and let the ink run where it wants. When I asked him what the word for the voyage was, he laughed and told me the captain's only instruction when she signed us on was that we should not stay put. Wander, she had said, as if it were an order and a blessing both. So I have been practising it in the margins of my almanac, the W swinging out like a gull's wing, the d looped tight as a bollard.

Mostly I keep the lamp trimmed for him and say nothing. Last night the swell came up under us and the cabin shelf emptied itself onto the floor, and he only pressed the nib to the paper and carried on. I am writing this on the back of a tide table so you will know I am not lying about the ink.

When we come home I will post you the page with the word on it, and you can pin it above the scullery sink where the damp gets in. I will be the one who has been everywhere and still signs his letters with a full stop. Yours, Tom.