Rope tattoo ideas

517 photos and flash · 54% Traditional, 11% Lettering · Forearm most common

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Traditional style flash drawing of a dark anchor wrapped in gold rope, with two red stars, on a cream background.
Anchor with rope and two stars
Black and grey line drawing of an octopus wrapped around a sailing ship within a spade shape of rope, with a ship's wheel, anchor and an Ace of Spades banner.
Octopus and sailing ship ace of spades design
Traditional style flash drawing of a shark wearing a top hat, monocle and tailcoat inside a rope border, with no body placement shown.
Shark in top hat and tailcoat in a rope frame
Black and grey pencil drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope with a ship's wheel on the shank, shaded with fine hatching and stippling, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Anchor with rope and ship's wheel
Black and grey hand-lettered tattoo flash design of an anchor with rope and the words If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land, drawn on a sketchbook page, with no body part shown.
Anchor with hand-lettered quote design
Cross-stitch on white fabric in a dark frame showing traditional tattoo motifs: a red heart with a LOVE banner and dagger, and an anchor wrapped in rope with stars.
Cross-stitch heart, dagger and anchor flash
Pencil line drawing of a unicorn head with a flowing swirled mane inside a braided rope oval, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Unicorn head in a rope oval
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope and vines, with two roses and a ribbon banner, drawn in black and grey.
Anchor with roses and rope in pencil sketch
Line drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, with a fish skeleton on the shaft, an eye at the centre and radiating rays behind, shaded in blue, purple and yellow.
Anchor with rope, fish skeleton and eye
Black and grey traditional style flash design of an anchor, a sailing ship, two pistols, roses and banners reading Loose Lips and Sink Ships, with no body placement shown.
Anchor, ship and pistols traditional flash
Flash design of a ship's wheel and an anchor wrapped in rope, with script lettering reading Be the one to guide me but never hold me down, in black ink on a pale background.
Ship's wheel and anchor with quote lettering
Black line drawing of a ship's wheel, lily and hibiscus-style flowers, and a rope and anchor in a neo-traditional sketch style, shown as a tattoo design.
Ship's wheel, flowers and anchor design
Drawn tattoo design of an anchor entwined with an infinity symbol of rope, purple roses and the script words I refuse to sink.
Infinity anchor and roses design
Black line drawing of a tattoo design showing an elephant with feathers, a pocket watch, an anchor and clouds, with a neo-traditional style.
Elephant, pocket watch and anchor design
Neo-traditional style flash design of a woman's portrait framed by bees, honeycomb, a UFO and an 'I want to believe' banner, with no body placement shown.
Portrait with bees, UFO and banner
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing an anchor, clasped hands, crossed arrows, a rope, flowers, an envelope and banners with lettering.
Traditional flash sheet with anchor, hands and banners
Black and grey ink drawing of a ship's anchor wrapped in rope, with two crossed hatchet axes behind it, on a pale parchment-style background.
Anchor with crossed axes and rope
Greyscale pencil drawing of a rough wooden cross bound with rope, presented as a tattoo design with no body part shown.
Lashed wooden cross design
Black ink flash sheet with six traditional-style designs: a crescent moon with clouds, a rose with a banner, a dagger with a banner, a silhouette and skull, a sun with a banner, and a heart inside a
Six black ink flash designs on a sheet
Botanical flash design of a compass rose inside a wreath of branches, flowers and leaves, with a bird, a rope and an anchor, on a cream background.
Compass and anchor wreath design
Pencil sketch of an anchor with a rope coiled around the shank, a design that could suit a traditional style tattoo.
Anchor with rope pencil sketch
Traditional style flash sheet showing a ship in a rope frame, a globe with a 30 degree banner, flowers, a hand with a bracelet and a geisha head with roses.
Traditional flash sheet with ship, globe and flowers
Watercolour-style flash design of a sailing ship being wrapped by an octopus tentacle among swirling waves, with an anchor and rope below.
Sailing ship, octopus and anchor design
Black and grey traditional style flash sheet showing a shield with three horses and an eagle at the top, with a swallow, key, dagger, rose, skull, bicycle and other small designs below.
Traditional flash sheet with horses, eagle and dagger
Traditional style anchor flash design with a red heart and a banner reading DAD, drawn in red, blue and yellow with bold black outlines.
Traditional anchor and heart with DAD banner
Traditional-style flash design of red and yellow roses and rope framing a lettered sign on a aged yellow background, with no body part shown.
Roses and rope sign flash design
Coloured pencil drawing of a sailing ship on waves inside a rope-framed spade shape, with a rope knot and lotus-like shape below, in a traditional style.
Sailing ship in a rope-framed heart design
Black and grey drawing of a traditional anchor with a rope coiled around the shaft and a knot at the top, on a plain light grey background.
Anchor with rope design
Sheet of fourteen black ink anchor designs on a beige paper background, several with rope, rings or a ship's wheel, in a traditional hand-drawn style.
Anchor designs on a flash sheet
Black ink flash sheet in a traditional style showing two female heads with daggers, barbed wire, clasped hands, a sailing ship and birds.
Traditional flash sheet with ship, daggers and barbed wire
Pencil sketch of a traditional style anchor tattoo design, wrapped in rope with a heart, scrollwork and two flowers.
Anchor with rope and flowers sketch
Traditional-style nautical design of two swallows, a rope-edged anchor and roses, burned into a pale wooden board, with no body placement shown.
Swallows, anchor and roses design on wood
Pencil sketch of a bare tree whose roots trail down into a rope wrapped around an anchor, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Bare tree with roots and anchor sketch
Black silhouette anchors and ship wheels of varying sizes scattered across a white flash sheet, with no body placement shown.
Anchors and ship wheels design sheet
Traditional flash drawing of a mermaid with long dark hair seated on an anchor and rope, holding a small cherub, in red, yellow and black outline on a tan background.
Mermaid and anchor traditional flash
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope, a swallow and two skulls, with no body placement visible.
Anchor, swallow and skulls tattoo design
Teal line drawing in a traditional nautical style showing a sailing ship, waves and an anchor wrapped in rope, with a banner reading I am the captain of my soul.
Sailing ship and anchor banner design
Black and grey traditional flash line drawing of a mermaid holding a baby with a flower, seated on a wooden-beamed anchor with rope, shown without a body placement.
Mermaid and baby on an anchor
Flash sheet of twenty-four black and white anchor designs, many with crosses, shields, rope and an octopus, in traditional and line-art styles.
Anchor and cross flash sheet
Black ink flash design of a braided woman holding a goat, with a sunburst eye above her head and flowers at her shoulders, suited to a dotwork and botanical style.
Braided woman with an eye, flowers and a goat
Black line drawing of a mermaid wrapped around an anchor with a rope, in a traditional flash style, on a sheet of paper.
Mermaid wrapped around an anchor flash
Black and grey traditional flash design of a swallow perched on an ornate anchor wrapped in rope, with a ship's wheel hanging below.
Swallow perched on an anchor with ship's wheel