Scrollwork tattoo ideas

1,183 photos and flash · 20% Neo-trad, 19% Botanical · Forearm most common

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Traditional style tattoo of a grey stylised profile face within an oval frame with orange scrollwork, orange flowers and black leaves, on a forearm.
Traditional profile face in an oval frame
Sheet of metallic gold and silver henna-style tattoo designs showing lace bands, an elephant and a mandala flower.
Metallic henna-style temporary tattoo flash sheet
Black ink drawing of a symmetrical scrollwork design with a heart-shaped pentagram inside a circle at its centre, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Symmetrical scrollwork with heart pentagram
Close-up of a large blackwork neck tattoo with cream scrollwork and a central diamond motif, shown on a neck and chin.
Black ornamental neck tattoo
Neo-traditional flash drawing of a green and yellow budgie perched in an ornate birdcage with leaves and scrollwork, shown on paper with no body placement.
Budgie in an ornate birdcage flash
Botanical tattoo of a shaded purple flower with black swirling vines and dots, running from the ankle down across the top of the foot.
Purple flower and swirling vines on an ankle
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a coffee cup with a dark liquid splash and beans on the forearm, with a shaded rose above it.
Coffee cup and beans on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo on a forearm showing a typewriter-style quote above an ornate corset on a stand, with denim visible in the background.
Quote and corset dress form on forearm
Black and grey tattoo of an ornate oval clock face with numerals and a line of script in its scrolled frame, on the back, with a wing tattoo partly visible above.
Ornate clock face with quote
Black and grey realism tattoo on a forearm showing a pocket watch with Roman numerals, a feather, a skeleton key and a rose.
Pocket watch, key and rose on a forearm
Colour traditional-style tattoos on a leg in bath water, showing a rose, a snake, a matryoshka doll and a hot air balloon with an ornate basket.
Traditional rose, doll and balloon tattoos on a leg
Black ornamental mandala tattoo across the upper back and neck of a woman with her hair in a bun, in a geometric style.
Symmetrical mandala across the upper back
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red heart inside a teal and gold framed box, with a pink flower and teal leaves, on the back of a hand.
Heart and flower on the back of a hand
Small black scrollwork tattoo wrapping around the side of a finger, shown as a fine line design on pale skin.
Small scrollwork band on a finger
Black and grey flash design of an interlocking heart and six-pointed star within a circle, framed by ornate filigree scrollwork.
Heart and hexagram ornamental design
Shirtless bearded man with black tribal knotwork tattoos across his left shoulder, upper arm, chest and forearm.
Tribal knotwork tattoos on shoulder and chest
Black and grey shaded tattoo of a dollar sign inside a sunburst with scrollwork on a calf, shown in two photos.
Dollar sign in sunburst on calf
Two matching realistic colour tattoos of tabby cat faces with purple and teal banners and scrollwork, shown side by side on the legs.
Matching cat portraits with name banners
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a blue TARDIS police box with a sunrise, gold scrollwork and green leaves on the outer forearm.
TARDIS and sunrise on a forearm
Neo-traditional tattoo of a teal stand mixer in a gold scrollwork frame with red poppies, on the outer thigh.
Teal stand mixer in a gold frame on a thigh
A seated person in a black bra and patterned underwear shows neo-traditional tattoos of two female portraits on the upper arm, a rose on the hand, and ornate scrollwork and a teal wave on the torso.
Portrait and ornamental tattoos on arms and torso
Black and grey photograph of a shaded heart-shaped padlock tattoo on one wrist and a small skeleton key tattoo on the other wrist.
Padlock and key tattoos on two wrists
Two hands with white ornamental mandala and scrollwork tattoos on the back of the hand and wrist, with a small word on the forearm at the right edge.
White ornamental mandala designs on hands
Hand-drawn white ink mandala design on a black background, with radiating geometric and floral patterns and no body placement shown.
White ink mandala on black
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of an elephant head with a third eye in a pink mandala, set within an ornate hamsa-style frame with dotted chains on the thigh.
Elephant in ornate hamsa frame on thigh
Realistic colour tattoo of a sugar skull woman framed by skeletal hands and teal scrollwork, with the words Till The End on the neck, on a forearm.
Sugar skull portrait on forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of an ornate key with a clock face and a feather, on the side of the ribs.
Ornate key with clock face and feather on ribs
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a green and cream VW camper van in an ornate grey frame with red hibiscus flowers on the upper arm.
VW camper van and hibiscus on upper arm
Black blackwork tattoo of lace-like mesh and floral scrollwork across the upper arm and shoulder of a person wearing a dark top.
Black lace and floral scrollwork on upper arm
Blue-ink lotus mandala tattoo with dotwork shading and two dots below it, on the forearm near the wrist.
Blue lotus mandala on a forearm
Realistic black and grey portrait of a man's face framed by tribal scrollwork on an upper arm.
Realistic portrait of a man framed by tribal scrollwork
Black and grey lace pattern tattoo with shaded flowers and scrollwork wrapping around the upper arm near the elbow.
Lace and flower tattoo on upper arm
Single-colour tattoo on a thigh of the words HELL IS EMPTY AND ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE, framed by swirling scrollwork in lettering and fine line style.
Quote lettering with scrollwork on a thigh
Photograph of an ornate cross tattoo with a solid blue centre and black filigree scrollwork outline, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Ornate cross on upper back
Black and pink filigree heart tattoo with scrolling inner pattern on the ankle of a person wearing pink and black socks.
Filigree heart on the ankle
Two pencil flash designs on translucent paper: a cat above an ornate shield with a rose and flowers, and a filigree heart locket with a key and ribbon, in a neo-traditional style.
Cat with rose and heart locket with key
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of an anthropomorphic cat in a veiled hat with a red rose, set in a black scrollwork frame on a forearm.
Veiled cat portrait with rose on a forearm
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo of an ornate heart-shaped padlock with a key and ribbon on the upper arm, with a small star below.
Heart padlock and key on upper arm
Colour feather and floral tattoo with swirling linework across a woman's abdomen and ribs, with teal, blue and pink shading.
Feather and floral tattoo across abdomen and ribs
Black and grey flash sheet of decorative alphabet letters A to Z, each with floral swirls, and some with small butterflies, in a lettering style.
Decorative alphabet letters A to Z with swirls
Realism tattoo of a woman wearing a gold Venetian mask with blue feathers, a peacock feather and a red flower across the upper arm and shoulder.
Venetian mask and peacock feathers on upper arm
Black and grey drawing of a stag's head in profile with swirling ornamental detail on the neck and face, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Stag head in black and grey linework
Full back tattoo in a neo-traditional style showing two women framed by flowers, a bear, hands holding a jewel and ornate scrollwork.
Twin women and bear full back piece
Colour tattoo of a red and orange shaded heart inside blue and yellow filigree scrollwork on the upper arm, in a Neo-trad style.
Ornate heart and scrollwork on upper arm
Black fine line tattoo of the word always in flowing script above an ornate Deathly Hallows symbol, shown as a close-up on skin and on a woman's thigh.
Always script and Deathly Hallows symbol on a thigh
Black and grey ornamental damask scrollwork tattoo covering the back of the neck, photographed from behind with hair tied up.
Black ornamental damask tattoo on the back of a neck
Black botanical vine tattoo with flowers, leaves and scrollwork running down the centre of a bare back, following the spine.
Floral vine tattoo down the spine
A realism style black and grey lion head tattoo within an ornate frame on the outer thigh of a person wearing black tights.
Lion head in ornate frame on a thigh