White fine-line mandala design with lotus-style petals on the back of a hand, placed on the hand and wrist, with silver rings and grey nails.

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White mandala design on the back of a hand

Botanical · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A white, henna-style mandala with a lotus-like centre and lace-like petals covers the back of the hand and extends towards the wrist, with a curling stem running up between the knuckles. The linework is fine and detailed, with the design appearing in white against the skin tone. The hand wears several silver rings and has long grey stiletto nails, set against a pale grey wall.

Botanical Hand Mandala Lotus Flower Swirl Floral pattern

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Walter,

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The pit hooter went at six this morning and I was already on my knees on the front step with the whiting bucket, so you can tell Mr Kell that his wife's step is the cleanest in Ashington, whatever he says about the coal dust. I have been drawing on it since. Mam showed me the pattern her own mother used on the Sunday step, a flower with a round heart and petals that look like lace, all done in white on the grey stone so the whole street could read it from the gate. I have made it bigger than hers. Twelve petals, and a curl of stem running down toward the coal house where the light falls.

Mrs Robson says it is a heathen thing, drawing flowers on a step for nobody to walk on. I told her it is for the men coming up the lane at half past two, so they know which door is ours before they can see their own faces in the window. She laughed, which is more than the doctor managed when he came about Father's chest.

Walter, the lamp girl says the cage has been stopping at the fourth level again. I have not told Mam. I have only told you, and you must not go down past the seam on Thursday if the foreman says otherwise. Keep your collar on and your head out of the dust.

It rained in the night and the step is grey again this morning. I have started the lotus over, petal by petal, and I will keep at it until you are home to see it dry.

Your loving sister, Ada