Spine tattoo ideas

316 photos and flash · 26% Fine line, 20% Botanical · Back most common

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Black linework tribal tattoo with swirling spirals and a small turtle across the upper back and down the spine, photographed in sepia.
Tribal swirls and turtle across a back
Black tribal-style dragon flash design with a coiled S-shaped body and spiked head, drawn in solid black on a white background.
Tribal dragon design in black
Fine line black tattoo of seven chakra mandalas running down the spine of a woman's back, placed in a vertical column.
Seven chakra symbols along the spine
Realistic colour tattoo of a zipper opening the skin on a person's upper back and neck to reveal the spine and metal spinal hardware.
Zipper opening to reveal spine on back
Black linework floral spine tattoo running down the centre of a bare back, with a teal-filled medallion at its midpoint.
Ornate floral spine tattoo on a back
Black line tattoo of seven chakra symbols stacked down the centre of a person's back, each in a lotus or mandala ring, with a lotus flower at the base.
Seven chakra symbols stacked down the spine
Sepia photograph of a bare back with a fine line script tattoo running vertically down the spine, with the hair pinned up.
Script line down the spine in sepia
Black line drawing of a serpentine dragon with a spiked back, tall wing-like fins and a curled tail, shown on a plain white background.
Serpentine dragon with spiked back and wings
Realistic colour tattoo of a vertebral column with metal rods and bolts, appearing to sit beneath skin peeled back by a zip, across the upper back and neck.
Zipped-open spine tattoo on upper back
Black and grey realism tattoo of a phoenix with spread wings over the upper back and shoulder, with peacock feathers running down the spine to the lower back.
Phoenix and peacock feathers across a back
Black and grey biomechanical spine and ribcage tattoo covering a calf, photographed from behind.
Biomechanical spine tattoo on a calf
Black tribal-style swirl tattoo with a small turtle across a person's upper back and along the spine, shown in a sepia photograph.
Tribal swirl back tattoo with turtle
A flash drawing of a colourful seahorse with a curled tail, inked outlines, dotwork detail and watercolour-style blue, green, yellow and lilac shading on a white background.
Colourful seahorse design
Black tribal-style dragon tattoo with a curling body and a sphere near the base, running down the side of the torso.
Tribal dragon tattoo on the side of the torso
Full back tattoo of a twisted ribbon running down the spine over ornamental lattice panels, in black and grey dotwork and linework.
Ornamental ribbon back piece
Black swirling vine tattoo running down the centre of a person's back along the spine, in a botanical style.
Swirling vine tattoo down the spine
Three-panel image of a woman's back: a large colour tattoo of a woman's face, red poppies and a pocket watch, and a black-and-grey spine design with a bird-like shape below.
Back tattoos with portrait, poppies and clock
Black and grey realism tattoo of a crowned skull with smoke swirls across a forearm.
Crowned skull on a forearm
Black and grey pen drawing of a seahorse whose body is formed from segmented vertebrae, shown in profile on a white background.
Seahorse drawing with vertebrae body
Black and white photo of a person's bare back with a fine line column of planetary and astrological symbols running down the spine.
Planetary symbols down the spine
Black tribal-style dragon head and sweeping wings drawn as a solid silhouette on white paper, a design suitable for a blackwork tattoo.
Tribal dragon head and wings
Black ornate mandala tattoo running down the centre of a woman's upper back, seen from behind.
Ornate mandala down the spine
Black ink butterflies rise up the spine and a musical staff with notes sits low on the back of a woman in a red dress, in a garden setting.
Butterflies and music notes across a back
Fine line black tattoos of seven chakra lotus designs stacked down the spine of a bare back, with dreadlocks at the top of the frame.
Seven chakra lotus tattoos down the spine
Woman seen from behind in a white lace dress with an open back, showing a black fishbone-style tattoo running down her spine, walking on sand dunes.
Fishbone spine tattoo on a woman's back
Black blackwork tattoo of a bare tree on a person's upper back, its trunk running down the spine with vertebra-like segments and branches spreading over the shoulder blade.
Bare tree with spine trunk across a back
Black and grey realism tattoo of a phoenix with spread wings across the upper back, with trailing feathers and peacock-style eye feathers running down the spine.
Phoenix wings and feathers across a back
Black ink drawing of a tree trunk shaped like a spine, with a songbird, an apple, ivy, branches and mushrooms, in a botanical style with no body placement shown.
Tree trunk spine with bird and apple