Rope tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey dotwork hot air balloon tattoo with a basket and ropes, sitting on the forearm.
Hot air balloon on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork compass rose with a fine line rope leading to an anchor, tattooed on a shoulder.
Compass rose and anchor on a shoulder
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a humpback whale lifted by ropes to a small basket, on the inner forearm.
Whale lifted by a balloon on forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a bearded figure hanging upside down by the ankles, shown in stippled engraving-style linework on the thigh.
Upside-down bearded figure on a thigh
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
Black and grey engraving-style tattoo covering the upper arm and shoulder, with a wolf, skeletons, a bird, an eye, a snake and a crescent moon.
Engraved skeleton and beast scene on upper arm
Black and grey traditional style tattoo on the forearm showing a house with a scalloped roof, dotted smoke, a TAKE CARE banner and a rope knot.
House and rope knot with TAKE CARE banner
Pencil sketch of a compass rose inside a rope-edged circle decorated with dots, with a feather hanging from a chain below, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Compass rose and feather design sketch
Black and grey neo-traditional key tattoo with red shading on the bow, crossing a rope-framed compass rose on the forearm.
Key and compass rose on a forearm
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
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
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope and a serpent, with two sharks, bubbles and a sunburst behind, in dotwork and blackwork shading.
Anchor with rope, sharks and serpent design
Black and grey stippled dotwork design of an anchor wrapped in a rope and a banner reading I Refuse To Sink, shown as a drawing with no body placement visible.
Anchor with I Refuse To Sink banner
Black and grey stippled drawing of an anchor wrapped in two banners reading Reckless and Brave, held up on a white card in a hand.
Anchor with Reckless and Brave banners
Black and grey tattoo of a hand with two fingers raised inside a braided rope oval tied with a knot, on the forearm, with stippled shading in the background.
Hand in a rope frame on a forearm
Black and grey hot air balloon tattoo with ornate dotwork patterns and a hanging anchor on the inner forearm.
Hot air balloon and anchor on a forearm
Black and grey anchor tattoo with a coiled rope on the lower leg, shaded with stippled dots and bold outlines in a traditional style.
Anchor and rope on a calf
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a striped lighthouse inside an oval rope frame with waves and a flower, on the forearm.
Lighthouse in rope frame on a forearm
Black dotwork drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, with bubbles rising from it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Dotwork anchor with rope and rising bubbles
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a sailing ship with an anchor and rope waves on the forearm.
Sailing ship and anchor on a forearm
Black ink anchor tattoo on a forearm, with rope forming a heart around the shank and dotwork shading on the crown and lower chevron.
Anchor wrapped in a rope heart on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a bone bound with rope, shown on the inner forearm of a person wearing dark clothing.
Rope-wrapped bone on a forearm
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
Black and grey dotwork and engraved-style sleeve on the upper arm and shoulder, showing waves, a figure, a moon and a chain along the lower arm.
Engraved sea and figure upper arm sleeve
Black dotwork ouroboros, a serpent eating its own tail forming a braided-looking ring, on the upper back of a woman with dark hair.
Ouroboros serpent on upper back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a cat in a sailor hat and striped top, framed by a coiled rope, on a forearm.
Sailor cat in a rope frame on a forearm
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
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