Root tattoo ideas

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Black and grey realistic tattoo of a tree with spreading branches and exposed roots running along the ribs and side of the torso.
Tree with roots on the ribs
Black and grey tree with exposed roots and hand-lettered quote tattooed on the side of the ribs, above hatched ground lines.
Bare tree with lettered quote on ribs
Black and grey family tree tattoo with swirling leaves, script lettering and roots on the side of the ribs.
Family tree with roots and script lettering on ribs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a bare tree with twisting roots running from the side ribs down towards the hip.
Tree with exposed roots on the ribs
Colour tattoo of a twisting purple tree with black branches and magenta and teal roots running down the ribs and side of the torso.
Purple tree with roots on the ribs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a grandfather clock with butterflies lifting from its top and roots spreading beneath it, on the side of the ribs.
Grandfather clock with butterflies and roots
Black fine line tree of life tattoo with spreading roots and a small owl perched on a branch, placed on a person's ribs.
Tree of life with owl on ribs
Colour tattoo on the side of the ribs of a bare tree with roots wrapped in ribbon banners, with a heart at the base and a name on a banner.
Bare tree, roots and heart with ribbon banners on ribs
Black and grey tattoo of three small white-faced forest spirits perched on a gnarled branch, placed on the side of the ribs.
Three forest spirits on a branch on the ribs
Black and grey tattoo on the side of a ribcage showing a bare tree whose branches form a heart around the script words Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.
Tree with heart canopy and script quote on ribs
Black fine line tattoo of a tree with curling branches and swirled roots on the side of the ribs.
Swirling tree tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey tree tattoo with a full canopy of leaves and gnarled roots, placed on the side of the ribs.
Tree tattoo on the side of the ribs
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a bare tree with a tyre swing and exposed roots, placed on a person's ribs.
Bare tree with tyre swing on ribs
Black ink tree of life tattoo with swirling branches, roots and Hebrew lettering inside a circle, placed on the side of the torso.
Tree of life with Hebrew lettering on the side
Black and grey tattoo of a twisting tree with a perched bird and a dotwork cube pattern on a person's ribs.
Tree and geometric cube tattoo on ribs
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a tree of life inside a circle, with a sun on the left, on the side of the ribs.
Tree of life and sun on the ribs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a gnarled, twisting tree with bare branches running up the side of the ribs.
Gnarled tree on the ribs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a bare tree with roots and twisting branches across a man's ribs and side of the back.
Bare tree tattoo across ribs and back
Black and grey bare tree tattoo with twisting trunk and branches on the side of a torso, over the ribs and above the waistband of jeans.
Bare tree tattoo on the side ribs
Black ink tattoo of a skeleton entwined with a bare tree, running down the side of the ribs, with small red accents on the branches.
Skeleton and bare tree on the ribs
Black and grey dreamcatcher tattoo with a tree of life inside the hoop and three shaded feathers, placed on the ribs.
Dreamcatcher with tree of life on ribs
Black and grey tree tattoo with red autumn leaves, its roots running down the side of the ribs and hip.
Gnarled tree with roots along the side
Black ink tattoo on the side ribs of a skeleton standing within a bare tree with roots, with small red accents on the buds.
Skeleton in a bare tree on the ribs
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a young sprouting plant with fine roots, on the side of a torso under an open teal checked shirt.
Sprouting plant with roots on the side torso
Colour botanical tattoo of a blossoming tree with exposed roots and a banner reading Family, across the ribs on the side of the torso.
Blossoming tree with roots on the ribs
Grey shaded bare tree with gnarled branches and a red heart hanging from a chain, tattooed along the side of the ribs.
Red heart hanging from a shaded bare tree
Sketchy black and grey tattoo of a gnarled tree trunk with a single red heart hanging by a thread, placed on the side of the ribs.
Hanging red heart on a cracked tree trunk