Spiral tattoo ideas

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

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Black tribal-style penguin design on a white background, with swirls, spirals and floral motifs filling its body, shown as a standalone drawing rather than on skin.
Tribal-style penguin design
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a warped checkerboard tunnel wrapping around the inner forearm.
Optical illusion checkerboard tunnel on a forearm
Teal and grey koru-style scroll tattoo wrapping around the ankle and onto the top of the foot.
Teal koru scrolls wrapping an ankle
Colour tattoo of a red dragon breathing a fireball in a neo-traditional style, running down the side of a torso over the ribs.
Red dragon breathing fire on ribs
Black and grey tribal spiral tattoo with bold curved shapes across a person's upper back and shoulder.
Tribal spiral tattoo across upper back
Black ink drawing of a butterfly made of swirling tribal-style curls, with a diagonal trail of small spirals and squares, drawn on plain paper as a tattoo design.
Swirl butterfly with dotted trail design
Black tribal flash design of a turtle with spiral and wave patterns, set along a long curved band, with no body placement shown.
Tribal turtle design in a curved band
Fine line tattoo of a golden rectangle with a Fibonacci spiral and rows of numbers on a person's inner forearm.
Golden ratio spiral and digits on forearm
Black line-art flash sheet of henna-style flowers, leaf sprays, dots, scrolls and geometric border strips, shown without any body placement.
Henna-style flower, leaf and border flash sheet
Black line tattoo of a rounded creature with a curled tail and a stylised symbol with a loop beside it, shown on a limb.
Black line creature with curled tail
Black fine line tattoo of an eye with a spiral iris and lashes on the calf of a person in a white skirt and white trainers.
Eye tattoo on lower leg
Brown henna-style turtle with spiral shell pattern, surrounded by dots and seaweed-like curls, on a forearm.
Turtle design with swirls on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a sun with a spiral centre and wavy green and blue rays on the inner forearm.
Green and blue sun with spiral centre
Black line drawing of interlocking gears and cogs curling into swirling chain links on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Interlocking gears and cogs swirl design
Red and black dotwork mandala with a central om symbol and a black unalome line running down the thigh, in a close photograph.
Om mandala with unalome on thigh
Black linework flash design of an ornate seahorse built from curling swirls and solid circles on a white background.
Ornate seahorse design in black swirls
Black blackwork tattoo of Celtic knotwork, swirls and a central tree motif covering the upper arm and shoulder.
Celtic knotwork and tree tattoo on upper arm
Black ink mandala flash design with a radial floral pattern of petals, dots and scrollwork on a white background, suitable for a fine line or dotwork tattoo.
Black and white mandala design
Small black linework tattoo of a looping spiral symbol on the inner wrist and forearm, shown against a black and white printed background.
Spiral knot symbol on a wrist
Black line drawing design of a stylised bird with spread wings rising from a curling stem with spirals and a leaf, shown on a white background with no body placement.
Stylised bird with spiral stem
Black and grey tattoos on a forearm, including a bulb shape, a grinning mouth and a spiral, with a white t-shirt worn above.
Black and grey forearm tattoos with a spiral
Black line flash design of a spiral shell built from brick-like segments, with the words There is no place like HOME running along the curve.
Spiral shell with 'There is no place like home'
Black and white flash sheet of Polynesian-style tribal bands and face motifs with spirals, sawtooth edges and bold solid shapes, shown as designs rather than on skin.
Polynesian-style tribal design sheet in black
Red linework and black bands tattooed on two fingers of a hand, with a thin silver ring on a third finger, against green clover leaves.
Red and black line tattoos on fingers
Black lettering tattoo in Devanagari script arranged in a spiral around a central symbol, placed across a person's upper back.
Devanagari script spiral on upper back
Black fine line flash design of a seated, cross-legged figure with lotus flowers, a spiral eye, a globe and a heart, set within an ornate outlined frame.
Seated lotus figure with globe and eye flash
Black linework tattoo of a tree of life with curling branches and roots, and a stylised female figure in the trunk, on the forearm.
Swirling tree of life on a forearm
Fine line mountain outline with shaded peaks and printed coordinates, plus a green spiral, tattooed across the side of a foot.
Mountain outline and coordinates on a foot
Colour realism tattoo of a blue TARDIS police box surrounded by a galaxy with orange spirals and stars, across the upper arm and shoulder.
TARDIS and galaxy on upper arm
Black ink Celtic triquetra knot tattoo with spiral details on the upper back, beside the shoulder blade.
Celtic triquetra knot on upper back
Fine line red outline of a lotus flower above a curling spiral stem, tattooed on the inside of an ankle.
Lotus and spiral on an ankle
Small black fine line tattoo of a spiral above a simple shape with a forked tail, placed on the forearm near the wrist.
Small spiral and simple shape on the wrist
Black linework design of a swirling tree of life inside a circle, with small purple, orange and blue birds perched in the branches and red birds flying above.
Tree of life in a circle with birds
Black and grey Japanese style tattoo of a ramen bowl with chopsticks, a halved egg and a spiral, with flowers on the bowl, on the calf.
Ramen bowl with chopsticks on a calf
Colour geometric tattoo of a spiral shell overlapped by blue, green, yellow and purple triangles, placed on the upper arm.
Geometric shell and triangles on upper arm
Two circular mandala designs drawn in reddish-brown line work on a white background, one with scrolls and a central dot, the other with layered petals and a spiral centre.
Two circular mandala designs in red-brown line
Black linework tattoo of a nautilus shell spiral on a shoulder, with shaded chambers at the centre and a single outline sweeping over the top of the shoulder.
Nautilus spiral tattoo on a shoulder
Black blackwork spiral heart tattoo on the palm of a hand held open, with heavily tattooed arms and legs of a kneeling person on grass behind it.
Spiral heart tattoo on a palm
Back view of a large black and grey dotwork tattoo with a central spiral in a diamond frame, extending across the shoulders and down both upper arms and forearms.
Full back dotwork spiral with geometric sleeves
Black and grey fine line geometric tattoo of overlapping squares and circles forming a spiral across a person's upper back and shoulder.
Overlapping geometric spiral on shoulder blade
Black and grey tribal tattoo with chevrons, diamonds and spirals wrapping around the upper arm near the elbow.
Tribal band wrapping the upper arm
Two black tribal-style owl designs on a white background, one perched with wings folded and one with wings spread, both in a Polynesian-inspired blackwork style.
Tribal owls, perched and spread-winged
Six blue fine line drawings of waves arranged in a grid on a white background, shown as tattoo design flash.
Six line drawings of waves
Colour tattoo of a yellow sunflower with green leaves and purple flowers on a person's shoulder and upper back, seen from behind.
Sunflower and purple flowers on a shoulder
Flash sheet of ten black tribal-style heart designs on a white background, each built from swirls, dots and linework, with no body placement shown.
Ten tribal heart designs on a flash sheet
Black blackwork tribal sleeve with circular motifs and rosettes covering a man's upper arm and shoulder, shown from three angles.
Tribal sleeve with circular motifs on upper arm
Black tribal-style gecko design with a curled tail, clawed feet and geometric patterns cut into its body, shown on a white background.
Tribal gecko design in solid black
Solid black tribal-style ram with a spiral horn tattooed on the upper arm.
Tribal ram on upper arm