Spiral tattoo ideas

943 photos and flash · 23% Blackwork, 17% Geometric · Forearm most common

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Flash design of a leaping dolphin filled with dark brown marble texture and white tribal wave and spiral linework, with no placement shown.
Tribal dolphin design with wave linework
Black line drawing sheet of five animals in a Celtic-style spiral design, including a bird, horse, stag, badger and wolf, suitable as tattoo flash.
Five Celtic-style knotwork animals sheet
Black tribal flash design of a sun with a spiral centre and an eight-pointed star behind it, shown as a solid black stencil-style drawing.
Tribal sun and star design
Black and grey realism tattoo of an open pocket watch with a spiral clock face, leaves and a bead chain, on the upper arm.
Pocket watch with spiral clock face
Black ink drawing of a winged dragon perched above a Celtic triquetra knot, in a blackwork style, shown on a white background with no body placement.
Dragon with Celtic triquetra knot design
Black tribal tattoo with curved blade-like shapes, chevron bands and a spiral on the side of the ribs.
Tribal-style tattoo on the side of the ribs
Black tribal-style tattoo with red accents covering the shoulder, upper arm and chest of a shirtless man.
Tribal sleeve and chest piece with red accents
Black dotwork tattoo of a spiral with a looping line above and a lotus-style mandala below, set on a central part of the torso.
Spiral and lotus mandala tattoo
Rainbow-coloured illustration of a stylised sword with Celtic knotwork panels and small creature figures on a black background, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Stylised sword with Celtic knotwork
Black and grey flash sleeve design with orange pumpkins, a green sack-like character, a skull and crossbones and a yellow full moon.
Halloween sleeve design with pumpkins and skull
Open palm holding a brass compass, with fine line black tattoos of a leaf, an arrow and a small spiral across the palm.
Fine line leaf and arrow on a palm
Black and white yin yang symbol set inside a sun with spiralling rays, shown as a tattoo flash design without placement on the body.
Yin yang inside a sun design
Two matching black linework tattoos of nested squares spiralling inward, one on each forearm, with dot accents at the corners.
Spiral squares on both forearms
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a forearm, showing a large circle and bands of stippled shading that darken towards the wrist.
Dotwork circle and gradient bands on forearm
Black tribal band tattoo design with spirals, zigzag edges and a central flower motif, drawn on a white background.
Tribal band design with spirals
Black tribal band tattoo with spirals and triangles wrapping the forearm and onto the back of the hand, shown on a patterned mat.
Bold tribal band on forearm and hand
Three dark line-drawn semicolon designs on white: a single semicolon, a trinity of three semicolons around a central dot, and a sun-like spiral of semicolons.
Semicolon designs in three arrangements
Shirtless man showing a large black and red winged bird tattoo across his chest, with a triangle band and spiral motif below, and a tattooed upper arm.
Winged bird and geometric chest tattoo
Black fine line drawing of a lotus flower on a wavy stem that ends in a spiral, with a small dot above the bloom.
Lotus on a stem with spiral base
Black line drawing of a circular Celtic knotwork design with interlaced bands and spirals arranged in a star shape, shown on a white background.
Celtic knotwork star design
Watercolour-style nautilus shell tattoo with a black outline and blue, green and purple washes, on the elbow.
Watercolour nautilus shell on an elbow
Black linework tattoo of a golden ratio spiral within nested rectangles on a forearm, in a fine line geometric style.
Golden ratio spiral on a forearm
Black and white photo of a thin single-line swirl tattoo curling across the inner forearm near the wrist.
Fine line swirl on a forearm
Black tribal-style lizard tattoo design with swirling linework on a plain white background, shown without any body placement.
Tribal-style lizard design
Black knotwork tattoo of two interlaced animals with spiral details across the upper back, with a black triangular design on the shoulder.
Interlaced beast knotwork on a back
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a nautilus spiral with dotted geometric construction lines and circles on an upper arm.
Nautilus spiral with geometric construction lines
Black and white photo of a shirtless man seen from behind, with a small black triskelion tattoo of three spirals centred between the shoulder blades.
Triskelion tattoo on upper back
Black and grey tribal tattoo of spiral curls and chevron bands across the upper back.
Tribal curl design across the upper back
Black and grey tattoo covering the back of a hand and forearm with bold tribal-style geometric motifs and a central face-like design.
Geometric tribal-style hand and forearm tattoo
Black line drawing flash sheet of botanical tattoo motifs, including flowers, leaves, fern fronds, swirls and dotted vines, on a white background.
Botanical flash sheet of leaves, flowers and vines
Pencil sketch of a circular tattoo design split into quadrants, with black tribal-style vines, leaves and spirals.
Circular tribal vine and swirl design
Pink and purple lotus flower design with an Om symbol above it, drawn in black linework with coloured pencil shading on cream paper.
Lotus flower with Om symbol design
Black tribal-style Cancer zodiac symbol drawn as a design on a plain white background, with no body placement shown.
Cancer zodiac symbol design
Black and grey tattoo of a full moon with two silhouetted figures on a spiral hill, bats and clouds, placed across the upper back and shoulder blade.
Full moon, spiral hill and bats on upper back
Colour tattoo of a treble clef made of musical staff lines, with a rainbow gradient and a bass clef inside, on a person's calf.
Rainbow treble clef on a calf
Black ink drawing of a crescent moon tattoo design filled with curling swirls and hatched shapes, shown as a stencil-style sketch on white paper.
Crescent moon with ornamental swirls
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a forearm and wrist, with concentric circles and graduated bands that fade from solid black to fine stippling.
Dotwork circles and bands on a forearm
Black tribal-style sea turtle tattoo with spiral patterns in its shell, placed on the ankle.
Tribal sea turtle on an ankle
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a howling wolf with swirling linework trailing below it, on the inside of a wrist.
Howling wolf on a wrist
Black and grey tribal tattoo with spirals and cross motifs running in an S-curve down a bare back and side.
Tribal spiral tattoo down a back and side
Black abstract tattoo flash design of curling solid shapes, a spiral and a dot on a plain white background.
Abstract black swirl design
White ink fine line tattoo of a heart with spiral swirls and a small heart on the forearm.
White ink heart with swirls on an arm
Black calligraphic line drawing of a stylised zodiac symbol with a spiral, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Stylised zodiac symbol with spiral
Close-up photograph of a light, faded tribal-style tattoo with spiral scrolls, a dot and small drops on a limb of pale skin.
Light ink tribal-style motif with spirals
Black tribal sleeve tattoo design drawn as two arm sleeves on a white background, with circular motifs near the top and bold banded patterns below.
Tribal sleeve design in black
Two side-by-side views of a bold black tribal-patterned tattoo of spirals and waves with red chevron fills, wrapping the upper arm.
Tribal spiral and wave design on upper arm
Solid black blackwork-style design of a circle with white zigzag lines, with curling swirls trailing beneath it, shown on a white background.
Zigzag circle with flowing swirls
Bold black silhouette of a stylised bird in flight facing left, with spiral wing tips and white line details, shown as a flash design.
Stylised black bird with spiral wings