Rope tattoo ideas

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

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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
Colour tattoo of a pink rose wrapped in rope with a grey anchor on the upper arm, in a neo-traditional style with soft shading.
Pink rose and anchor on upper arm
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 anchor tattoo with a compass rose, and a red ship's wheel, on the inner forearm.
Anchor, compass and ship's wheel on a forearm
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 anchor tattoo with rope detail on the forearm, with a red balloon tied to it by a thin string, in traditional style.
Anchor and red balloon on a forearm
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
Solid black eagle, globe and anchor emblem tattoo on skin, with the continents shown as negative space in the globe.
Eagle, globe and anchor tattoo
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
Colour realism tattoo of a deer head with antlers, pink blossoms and a perched chickadee, on the upper thigh.
Deer, chickadee and blossom on a thigh
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
Colour neo-trad tattoo on an upper arm showing two female profile faces filled with a red and orange sunset, stars, birds and a rope knot below.
Two profile faces in a sunset on an upper arm
Colour traditional anchor tattoo wrapped in rope with a pink heart, shown on the upper arm in a traditional style.
Traditional anchor with heart on upper arm
Traditional style colour tattoo of an anchor wrapped in rope with Faith, Hope and Love banners, placed on the forearm.
Anchor with Faith, Hope and Love banners on a forearm
Colour tattoo of an anchor wrapped in rope, with a blue starry fill and watercolour splashes of a bird, on the outer thigh.
Anchor with rope on a thigh
Four-panel photo of a realistic black and grey compass, rope and old map tattoo across the forearm.
Compass and map on a forearm
Black and grey infinity tattoo with an anchor, rope, two red roses and a script name, placed across the upper back with two swallows above.
Infinity anchor and roses on upper back
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
Traditional style compass tattoo with a red rose and rope detail on a forearm, shown in three close-up photos.
Traditional compass with rose and rope
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 tattoos of two harlequin acrobats, one hanging from a rope and one falling, on the outer thigh and knee.
Harlequin acrobats on a thigh and knee
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of scissors, a bow-tied bundle of yarn, buttons and rope border on the upper arm, shown in two side by side photos.
Scissors, yarn and buttons on an upper arm
Black and grey Japanese style tattoo of a shark with an anchor and rope amid curling waves, covering a person's upper arm and shoulder.
Shark, anchor and waves on upper arm
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
Two matching forearm tattoos: a red winged heart with script text on the left, and a red and grey anchor with a rope coil and script text on the right.
Matching heart and anchor quote tattoos on forearms
Shaded grey anchor wrapped in a chain, with purple hibiscus flowers and grey leaves, a realistic colour tattoo on skin.
Anchor with purple hibiscus flowers
Black and grey realism tattoo on a shoulder and upper arm showing two helicopters, a pointing man's face and silhouetted figures rappelling from ropes.
Helicopters and rappelling figures on shoulder
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
Traditional style tattoo of a moustached man with slicked hair inside a rope frame, above a red rose with green leaves, on an upper arm.
Traditional man portrait and rose on an upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo of an anchor wrapped in rope with a teal wash behind it, on the top of a foot below the toes.
Anchor and rope on the foot
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 and grey dotwork tattoo on the forearm of pine trees, a full moon and a hill inside an oval rope border.
Moon, pines and hills in a rope frame
Traditional style tattoo of a grey shaded anchor wrapped in red rope forming a heart, on the lower leg.
Anchor wrapped in a red rope heart on the leg
Traditional colour tattoo of an anchor and ship wheel within a rope heart, framed by orange flowers, teal leaves and the words INTO THE SEA, on the thigh.
Anchor and ship wheel in a rope heart
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
Colour realism tattoo of an anchor wrapped in rope and pink roses and blue foliage, on the outer thigh.
Anchor with pink roses on a thigh
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
Black and grey traditional anchor tattoo with rope, a banner reading EST. and the date 1970 above, on a forearm.
Anchor with rope and 1970 est. banner on a forearm
Black linework anchor with a sword running through it and pink and magenta floral splashes, tattooed on the outer upper thigh.
Anchor and sword with pink flowers on thigh
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
Black linework anchor tattoo with pink, purple, blue and green watercolour splashes behind it on skin.
Anchor with watercolour splashes
Small black outline tattoo of an anchor wrapped in rope with the words Hebrews 6:19 beneath it, on the inner wrist.
Anchor with rope and text on a wrist
Full back tattoo in traditional style showing an eagle, a coiled snake, a sailing ship on waves and red roses, placed on the back.
Eagle, snake and ship across a full back