Rope tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional style anchor flash design with a wooden stock, coiled rope and red flowers with green leaves, shown on a plain white background.
Anchor with rope and red flowers
Black line flash design of a stitched spellbook with an eye on its cover, a banner reading It's all just a bunch of, and purple Hocus Pocus lettering.
Stitched spellbook with eye and banner flash
Traditional style flash drawing of a mermaid with shell top and a vintage brass diving helmet diver beside her, framed by a rope border.
Mermaid and diver under the sea
Black and grey traditional flash of a skull above a trident and anchor rope, framing a ship, a whale and a banner reading Sea Shepherd.
Skull, trident and whale in a rope frame
Four pastel nautical designs on a flash sheet: an anchor with a dolphin, a seahorse with a telescope, a compass rose with a clock face, and a ship's wheel with a lantern.
Vintage nautical flash sheet
Black line drawing of a traditional anchor wrapped in rope with two swallows in flight, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Anchor with rope and two swallows
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
Traditional-style flash drawing of a figure-eight knot in shaded rope with bold black outlines on a tan background.
Figure-eight knot rope design
Traditional style flash sheet showing a red crab with a heart-shaped body, an anchor wrapped in rope with waves, a scallop shell and a conch shell.
Nautical flash sheet with crab, anchor and shells
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 flash sheet with four designs: a cracked tombstone reading HOPE, a dagger with Sad Truth, a noose with Sweet Dreams, and a rose with a basketball centre reading Still Ballin.
Four flash designs on a light background
Traditional coloured flash design of a pin-up woman performing an acrobatic pose inside a green aerial hoop, with yellow ropes and black swirls.
Pin-up acrobat on an aerial hoop
Black and grey engraved drawing of an anchor with a twisted rope coiled around its shank, on a plain white background.
Anchor with rope wrapped around the shank
Black and grey line drawing of a traditional-style anchor wrapped in ribbon banners, one reading FAMILY, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Anchor with family ribbon banners
Traditional style flash design of an anchor wrapped in rope with a ship's wheel, two swallows and a laurel wreath, drawn on torn paper over wooden boards.
Anchor and ship wheel with swallows
Traditional style flash design of a black anchor wrapped in rope and entwined with red and orange roses, teal leaves and blue flowers.
Anchor with roses and rope
Pencil line drawing of a traditional-style anchor inside a rope border, with a lighthouse and seascape in the upper shank and a scallop shell and flowers at the base.
Anchor, lighthouse and shell design
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
Black and grey flash design of a lighthouse inside a rope circle, with a ship's wheel at its base and three banners carrying lettering.
Lighthouse and ship's wheel with banners
Black and grey pencil drawing of a lighthouse and ornate compass tattoo design on paper, with a hand holding a pencil at the top left.
Lighthouse and compass tattoo design
Black line drawing of an anchor wrapped in a twisted rope, in a traditional nautical flash style, with no body placement shown.
Anchor wrapped in rope line drawing
Black ink flash drawing of an anchor with rope, a skull and a cluster of flowers, in a traditional style.
Anchor, skull and flowers drawing
Navy line drawing of a bearded sailor in a striped top and cap, with tattooed arms, anchor and rope, and the lettering A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
Sailor flash with smooth sea lettering
Vintage-style anchor design with pink and peach roses, teal leaves and a rope wrapped around the shaft, shown on a plain pale background.
Anchor with roses design
Black and grey flash sheet of arrow designs with feathered fletching and decorative shafts, drawn on aged paper, suitable as tattoo inspiration.
Arrow flash sheet
Traditional style flash sheet in navy line work showing an anchor with rope, a swallow in flight, a three-masted sailing ship and a cluster of roses on a white background.
Nautical flash sheet with anchor, swallow, ship and roses
Vintage-style flash drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, decorated with pink roses and teal leaves, on a cream background.
Anchor with roses and rope
Brown ink drawing of a compass rose with a ship's wheel and anchor at its centre, shown on a cream notebook page, styled as a traditional nautical tattoo design.
Compass rose with ship's wheel and anchor
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style mermaid draped over an anchor, framed by flowers and rope, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Mermaid and anchor design sketch
Black ink line drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds and sunburst rays, in a traditional style.
Hot air balloon and journey banners flash
Black ink drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design, a heart outlined in rope with three flowers inside, on cream paper.
Heart with flowers and rope border
Pencil drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, with roses, hibiscus flowers and leaves, as a tattoo design sketch.
Anchor with roses and hibiscus drawing
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor, a heart with a cross, three roses and a dotted rope over a lace-like mesh, in a traditional style.
Anchor, heart and roses tattoo design
Traditional flash drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with grey sails and a red pennant, set in a rope oval with grey clouds, a red sun and blue waves.
Sailing ship in a rope frame with setting sun
Teal line drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope and set within an ornate filigree mandala, shown as a flash design on textured beige paper.
Anchor with ornamental filigree flash design
Black ink flash drawing of an anchor entwined with rope, with small stars and a crescent moon, in traditional style with stippled shading, drawn on white paper.
Anchor and rope flash design
Five black line flash designs on tracing paper, showing a kissing couple, a rabbit on a heart, an apple with a bow, a Mickey balloon and Minnie with ice cream.
Disney character flash sheets on tracing paper
Vintage-style anchor design with coiled rope and pink, peach and teal roses and leaves, drawn in fine black linework on a cream background.
Anchor with rope and vintage roses
Pencil sketch of an anchor wrapped in rope with three roses, drawn on cream paper by a hand holding a pencil, a traditional-style tattoo design.
Anchor with roses and rope sketch
Traditional-style flash design of a bearded sailor in a knitted cap smoking a pipe, framed by rope, with an anchor, laurel leaves and a red flower below.
Bearded sailor with pipe and anchor
Black and white flash sheet of tattoo designs including a steak, pizza slice, pie, rope, knife, eye and several hand-drawn lettering pieces.
Black and white flash sheet of food and lettering designs
Traditional flash design of a sailor in a cap kissing a woman with a finger waves hairstyle, framed by a rope circle with a red poppy and leaves.
Sailor and woman kissing flash
Black ink traditional flash sheet on cream paper showing a raven, bat, black cat, pumpkin, coffin, broomstick, spiders and spider webs, with a £31 price marked in the centre.
Halloween flash sheet with bats, cats and spiders
Vintage-style anchor design wrapped in rope and decorated with red, pink and cream roses and teal leaves on a pale background.
Anchor and roses design
Coloured traditional-style flash drawing of a red and white striped lighthouse framed by a rope border, with a red flower at the top and an anchor at the bottom.
Traditional lighthouse and anchor flash design
Pencil sketch of a traditional-style anchor wrapped in rope with a pocket watch showing Roman numerals, drawn as a tattoo design on paper.
Anchor and pocket watch design
Black ink flash drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope with the word SAILORS in ornate lettering across it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Anchor and SAILORS lettering design
Pen drawing of a traditional-style anchor wrapped in rope, with a seagull, a ribbon banner reading family and blue water, shown as a design with no body placement.
Anchor and rope design with family banner