Traditional-style flash drawing of a red heart with feathered wings spreading on either side and a scalloped lace edge, shown without a body placement.

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Winged heart design with lace trim

Traditional · Mixed · Flash

A drawn design of a dark red heart set between two large feathered wings, with scalloped, lace-like edging around the heart and wing bases. The linework is bold and dark, with soft grey and sepia shading that gives the feathers depth and a slightly aged look. The heart is the central focal point, with the symmetrical wings filling the width of a pale, vignetted background.

Traditional Heart Wing Feather Lace

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomasz, the gulls have been fighting over the fish heads on the slip since you left, and Mrs Pengelly swears one of them has your laugh. I have sent you the last of the lace collars Mother made before her eyes went. I pinned the scallops myself, though you will see the third row is crooked where the lamp blew out.

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The harbour master says the Marigold is a week overdue now. The men at the Anchor say a week is nothing in March, and I say the same to myself each morning, then walk down to the wall anyway with a flask of tea that goes cold before I have finished looking at the grey water.

There is something I meant to tell you before you sailed and didn't. The red glass heart in Mr Vosper's window, the one you said was too dear, he sold to a man from Falmouth on Tuesday. I went in meaning to buy it for you regardless and came out with a grey gull feather instead, which I have pinned inside the lining of your Sunday jacket where you will find it when you are home.

Write back soon, or better still, walk up the lane and knock. Your loving sister, Nell.