Ribbon tattoo ideas

1,005 photos and flash · 24% Traditional, 17% Lettering · Forearm most common

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Traditional style flash design of a red and white ball above a red polka dot flower and a blue rose, with gold banners reading I and CHOOSE YOU and YOU.
Poke Ball and rose flash with I choose you banners
Black and grey pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a wicker basket, high heels, stars and the script lettering There's no place like home.
Basket and heels with script lettering
Coloured pencil sketch of a pocket watch with Roman numerals, a looping ribbon and a flower with leaves, drawn as a tattoo design.
Pocket watch with ribbon and flower sketch
Black ink traditional-style anchor design with three banner scrolls across the shank reading Sleeping With Sirens, drawn as a flash sheet with no body part visible.
Anchor with three banners reading Sleeping With Sirens
Black and white line drawing of a sloth wrapped in three hatched banners reading NAP ALL DAY, SLEEP ALL NIGHT and PARTY NEVER, shown as a flash design.
Sloth with nap, sleep and party banners
Line drawing of a rose, ornate filigree heart and ribbons with leaves, a neo-traditional tattoo design on paper with no body placement shown.
Rose, ornate heart and ribbon design
Pencil sketch of a lettering flash design with ribbon banners reading Life is Short, Break the Rules, Kiss Slowly and Love Truly, drawn on graph paper.
Lettering flash with banners and quotes
Greyscale drawing of a snarling winged creature with clawed hands gripping a ribbon scroll, with a blue police box in front, shown as a tattoo design.
Winged creature with police box in ribbon scroll
Red pencil sketch of an arrow passing through a ribbon bow, drawn on a sketchbook page as a tattoo design.
Arrow and ribbon bow sketch
Ink design of the Deathly Hallows symbol, a triangle, circle and vertical line, with ribbon banners reading The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death, shown as a flash drawing.
Deathly Hallows symbol with quote banners
Black outline drawing of a dinosaur with a carousel-style rope pole, scrolled saddle and ribbon bows, on a sketchbook page, as a tattoo design.
Carousel dinosaur line drawing
Black and grey flash design of a lighthouse, crescent moons, flowers and a ribbon banner reading We found love in the dark, in a traditional style.
Lighthouse and ribbon banner flash design
Purple pencil sketch of crossed scissors, a comb and two roses wrapped in a ribbon, drawn as a neo-traditional tattoo design.
Scissors, comb and roses design
Black and grey pencil flash sheet showing heart lettering designs, a globe with a ribbon banner, a lightning bolt, a shoe and heart, and a linework portrait with lightning bolt face makeup.
Lettering and heart flash sheet
Flash sheet of five cartoon sharks, each with a cream banner carrying a slogan, drawn with bold black outlines in muted colour.
Five cartoon sharks on banners flash sheet
Two versions of a tattoo design drawing of a lantern lamppost with three banners reading COURAGE, DEAR and HEART, one in green and one in black and grey, in a fine line lettering style.
Lamppost with COURAGE, DEAR, HEART banners
Black and grey pencil drawing of a shaded bow with white star cutouts and dotted swirls, drawn as a tattoo design on paper.
Bow with stars design
Flash design of a black-outlined ribbon banner with green shading carrying the lettering IN THE WAVES OF CHANGE WE FIND OUR TRUE DIRECTION, shown on a speckled background.
Ribbon banner with a lettered quote
Black ink pen drawing of a heart with a bow at the top, corset-style lacing down the centre and cross-stitched seams on each side, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Laced heart with stitches and bow
Neo-traditional style flash design of Alice holding a white rabbit, with roses, mushrooms, lilies and a banner reading Follow the White Rabbit, shown without a body placement.
Alice with white rabbit banner design
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a safety pin with a bow and two lettered ribbons, drawn on paper with no body part visible.
Safety pin and bow with lettered ribbons
Black line drawing of a stylised mother holding a child, with an awareness ribbon around them that contains a heart, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Mother and child with ribbon and heart design
Black and grey flash design of a pin-up skeleton woman and a top-hatted skeleton man holding hands, with a banner quote above and below them.
Skeleton couple with banner quote
Black line drawing of a message in a bottle with a tied scroll, flanked by three roses and leaves, drawn on pale paper.
Message in a bottle with roses
Two black line drawn crown designs, each with a scrolling ribbon banner beneath, shown as tattoo flash on a plain white background.
Two crown designs with ribbon banners
Pencil drawing of two shaded roses, a bow, a hanging cross and a script banner reading La Familia, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Two roses, ribbon banner and cross design
Line drawing flash of a winged heart-shaped padlock with an ornate filigree pattern, a ribbon and a key below, shown as an unplaced tattoo design.
Winged heart padlock with key design
Pencil sketch of a shaded rose with leaves and a stem wrapped in three ribbon banners, drawn as a tattoo design in black and grey.
Rose with ribbon banners in pencil
Pencil sketch of a tall design of musical staves twisting upwards like a ribbon, with notes and a treble clef at the base, shown without any body placement.
Spiralling music stave sketch
Flash sheet of five heart designs: a red winged heart, a black dotted heart, a heart with a ribbon banner, a scrolled heart and a floral heart with leaves.
Five heart flash designs on a sheet
Tattoo design drawing of two awareness ribbons, one blue and grey and one lime green, interlaced in a heart shape with a red droplet on the blue ribbon.
Intertwined blue, grey and green ribbons with a drop
Black hand-drawn outline of a bow above the handwritten words 'a girl without a bow is not a girl' on a cream background, shown as a flash-style design.
Bow and handwritten quote design
Coloured flash design of a star fruit with a green leaf on top and a pale blue banner reading One Sky, One Destiny across it, drawn in a bold traditional style.
Star fruit with banner reading One Sky, One Destiny
Engraved illustration of a sword wrapped in grey ribbons in front of a gold globe and sunburst, drawn in a tattoo-flash style with no body placement shown.
Sword wrapped in ribbons over a golden globe
Black ink drawing of a top hat with a ribbon, above the quote "It's only a dream..." and the word ALICE, in a fine line style, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Top hat with ribbon and Alice quote
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing six dagger designs, each with a ribbon banner curling beneath the blade.
Six traditional dagger designs with banners
Pen sketch of a safety pin with a bow and two ribbons carrying lettering, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Safety pin and bow sketch
Black and grey ink drawing of a bull skull with horns, surrounded by roses, peonies, bones and ribbon banners, in a neo-traditional style.
Bull skull with roses and bones design
Black ink drawing of a compass rose with an arrow and ribbon, shaded in stippled dotwork on a white background.
Compass rose and arrow design
Black and grey pencil drawing of an electric bass guitar flanked by three shaded roses and a ribbon, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Bass guitar with roses and ribbon design
Teal sketch design of a perched owl with pine branches, a pine cone, a pocket watch and wisps of smoke, drawn on cream paper.
Owl and pocket watch tattoo design
Flash-style drawing of a cartoon woman with black bob hair and glasses, her arms raised, framed by hatched gold banners reading Smart, Strong, Sensual, Woman.
Cartoon woman with Smart Strong Sensual Woman banners
Black line drawing of a woman in an Art Nouveau arched frame, surrounded by skulls and snakes, with the word DEATH lettered at the base, shown as a tattoo design.
Art Nouveau woman with skulls and DEATH lettering
Black line flash sheet of small fine line designs, including semicolons, a ribbon, a cross, a dragonfly, a key and lettering such as Hope, Faith and Never Give Up, shown on white paper.
Semicolon and inspirational word flash sheet
Pink cartoon raptor peering over lilac banners that read CHAOS IS WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS, DARLING, on a pale pink background.
Pink raptor with lilac banner lettering
Black line flash design of a songbird holding a sprig, a rose, a pearl necklace and a folding fan with peonies, in a traditional style with no placement shown.
Bird, rose and folding fan line drawings
Black and grey pencil drawing of a rose with leaves, two hearts and flowing ribbon banners, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Rose with hearts and ribbons design
Black line drawing of a heart with a ribbon-style band reading love, honesty, and communication in script, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Heart with love, honesty and communication script