Banner tattoo ideas

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Traditional style tattoo of a ship's wheel over green waves with a banner reading Home Sweet Ocean, on the back of a hand.
Ship's wheel and Home Sweet Ocean banner
Traditional-style flash design of a sugar skull woman with flowers in her hair, a COSTURERA banner, scissors and a spool of blue thread, drawn in cross-stitch chart form.
Costurera sugar skull with sewing kit
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red heart with a NOT YOU banner, yellow daisies and black arrows on the upper arm, against a daisy-print top.
Heart with banner and daisies on an upper arm
Hand-drawn flash design of a syringe wrapped in grey banners with lyrics, with two purple flowers, in a traditional style.
Syringe with lyric banners and flowers
Neo-traditional flash design of a pin-up styled Snow White figure with a red bow, framed by a rope border, red roses and a banner reading waiting for true love's kiss.
Pin-up Snow White with banners and roses
Traditional colour tattoo of the Golden Gate Bridge with a banner reading HOME and a red heart held in hands, on the inner forearm.
Golden Gate Bridge and heart on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a red rose with green leaves and an orange Deathly Hallows symbol, with a lettered banner, on the forearm.
Rose and Deathly Hallows banner on arm
Black linework flash sheet drawn on paper, showing a skull with a flower, a flowered heart, a bouquet, a hand and a rope banner reading forget me not, in traditional style.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, heart and flowers
A grey tabby kitten rests on an arm with a traditional-style snake and flower tattoo on the forearm and a LUCK banner tattoo on the upper arm.
Kitten resting on a tattooed forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a stack of books with banners reading I'VE LIVED A THOUSAND LIVES, placed on the top of a foot.
Stacked books and banners on a foot
Traditional tattoo of a skull filled with a stars and stripes pattern, framed by banners reading American Beauty and American Psycho, in red, black and blue on skin.
Skull with flag design and banners
Colour tattoo of the Tottenham Hotspur crest on an upper arm, with a banner reading Tottenham, a cockerel, two red lions, a Hotspur banner with 1882, and a blue shield.
Tottenham Hotspur crest on upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo of a pepperoni pizza slice with a banner reading NOT, flanked by RIOTS and DIETS lettering, on a person's upper back.
Pizza slice with Riots Not Diets lettering
Greyscale steam locomotive with smoke on the calf, framed by a red banner reading Railway to Destiny and orange flowers in a traditional style.
Steam locomotive and banner on a calf
Traditional colour tattoo of a yellow and black striped ghost trap between two red roses and green leaves, with a banner reading WHO YA' GONNA CALL?, on the outer thigh.
Ghost trap and roses on a thigh
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grinning jack-o'-lantern pumpkin with vines, leaves, black bats and a grey banner reading 10.31.
Jack-o'-lantern pumpkin with bats
Colour tattoo of two butter-topped waffles with a blue banner reading BEST DUDE EVER, on the upper arm.
Waffles with butter and a Best Dude Ever banner
Black and grey pencil drawing of a pocket watch with Roman numerals, two shaded roses and a TIMELESS banner, presented as a tattoo design.
Pocket watch and roses with TIMELESS banner
Traditional-style colour tattoo on a calf with pink roses, a sunflower framing a woman's face, and banners reading PRETTY ODD and THINGS ARE SHAPING UP TO BE.
Roses and sunflower with banners on a calf
Traditional flash sheet of ten coloured sailing ships on green waves, with banners reading Hell Bound and Home Ward Bound and a few small stars and a rose.
Sailing ship flash sheet
Traditional style colour tattoo on a calf showing a blue puzzle piece with a gold outline motif, framed by a banner reading DIFFERENT NOT LESS.
Puzzle piece and banner reading Different Not Less
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a pocket watch with Roman numerals and a banner reading I shall not live in vain, on a forearm.
Pocket watch with banner on a forearm
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a pocket watch, a swallow, a flower and a banner with script lettering, in a traditional style.
Pocket watch, swallow and banner sketch
Traditional style tattoo of a cartoon boy with a scowling face inside a red scalloped heart with banners, on the upper thigh.
Cartoon character in heart banner on thigh
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a pin-up boxer in gloves between two banners reading Nobody's and Girl, on the outer thigh.
Pin-up boxer tattoo on a thigh
Collage of nine sewing-themed tattoos, including a traditional sewing machine on a forearm and scissors with a red spool on an upper arm, with a fine line spool on a forearm.
Sewing-themed tattoos in a nine-image collage
Black and grey traditional swallow tattoo on the upper back, with a banner reading it's just a spark but its enough beside a starburst.
Swallow with spark quote on upper back
Collage of six colour cartoon tattoos from The Simpsons, with lettering in banners and speech bubbles, shown on skin in traditional style.
Six Simpsons character tattoos in a collage
Black and white flash drawing of an anchor wrapped in tentacles with a banner reading LOVECRAFT and H.P., in a traditional engraved style with no body placement shown.
Anchor with tentacles and banner design
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a forearm showing a log cabin among pine trees, a mountain, a moon and clouds, with a scroll banner of lettering beside it.
Cabin, pines and mountain on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grey Dalek with red and yellow lightning bolts beneath a red banner reading To Victory, on the lower leg.
Dalek with lightning bolts on a calf
Traditional tattoo of a red rose and an open gold pocket watch with a script banner, shown on an arm.
Rose and pocket watch on an arm
Traditional style tattoo design of a black anchor, red heart and banner reading SORRY MOM, shown printed on white fabric with no body part visible.
Anchor and heart with SORRY MOM banner
Pencil flash sheet of traditional-style tattoo designs including a boxing glove, a swallow, a dagger, an anchor, an arrow and lettered banners.
Pencil flash sheet with boxing glove, swallow and banners
Traditional tattoo on a forearm showing an eye in a dark shape, red roses and a banner reading Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Eye, roses and banner quote on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of a blue TARDIS with a banner reading Just a Madman with a Box, with purple smoke and sparkles, on a forearm.
TARDIS with banner on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo on a forearm showing C-3PO above red flowers and a grey banner reading STAY GOLD.
C-3PO with banner and flowers on forearm
Traditional style flash design of a woman in leopard print holding a wand, with red roses and cream banners reading GREEN, SUPER GREEN, BZZZZZZTTT and HOT HOT HOT, on a green background.
Pin-up figure with roses and banners
Traditional colour tattoo on a chest showing a peach, pink flowers and leaves, with a banner reading Wisdom, Moderation, Justice, and flowers continuing onto the shoulder.
Peach and flowers chest tattoo with banner
Tote bag printed all over with traditional-style flash designs of aliens, UFOs, hands, flowers, flames and banner lettering in colour.
Tote bag printed with tattoo flash designs
Traditional-style flash design of a red rose, two headstones with carved busts, clasped hands, a shovel and a banner reading Forever True.
Forever True flash with rose and headstones
Line drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design on a torso, with an eagle, a LOYALTY banner, a ship, a skull and flags, shown in black outline.
Eagle, ship and LOYALTY banner torso design
Colour traditional tattoo of a pepperoni pizza slice with a pink banner reading PIZZA MY HEART, script text above and small hearts around it, on a forearm.
Pizza slice with banner on forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing an armoured woman with a halo, surrounded by flames, above a red banner reading Bigmouth Strikes Again.
Armoured saint in flames with banner on upper arm
Colour traditional-style tattoo on a forearm showing a figure seen from behind, framed by banners with lyrics reading Cast your stones and You don't make me who I am.
Figure and lyric banners on a forearm
Traditional tattoo of Darth Vader above a red heart and the words Who's Your Daddy, on the side of the ribs, with a red halo behind the helmet.
Darth Vader with heart and banner
Traditional style tattoo of pin-up legs in fishnet stockings with a red Trouble banner and black-outlined roses on a calf.
Pin-up legs and roses with Trouble banner
Traditional style flash design of a black coffin with a skeleton hand emerging from it, flanked by grey flowers and olive leaves, with a WIDE AWAKE banner below.
Coffin with skeleton hand and banner