Spool tattoo ideas

40 photos and flash · 48% Traditional, 25% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Traditional style tattoo of a turquoise sewing machine with pink flowers, a yellow fabric and a dashed thread heart on an arm.
Sewing machine with flowers on an arm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a black sewing machine with a spool and three red roses with green leaves, on a patch of skin at the side of the body.
Sewing machine and roses in traditional style
Black and grey linework tattoo of a sewing spool with a threaded needle trailing below it, on the forearm.
Sewing spool and needle on a forearm
Black and grey ink drawing of a crab gripping a spool of thread and needle, framed by sunburst rays and a looping thread, with the word Cancer beneath.
Crab with spool and needle, Cancer design
Traditional-style flash design of a sugar skull woman with flowers in her hair, a COSTURERA banner, scissors and a spool of blue thread, drawn in cross-stitch chart form.
Costurera sugar skull with sewing kit
Colour tattoo of a Singer sewing machine with a pink rose and green leaves on the upper arm, with a purple ribbon below.
Sewing machine and rose on upper arm
Collage of nine sewing-themed tattoos, including a traditional sewing machine on a forearm and scissors with a red spool on an upper arm, with a fine line spool on a forearm.
Sewing-themed tattoos in a nine-image collage
Colour traditional swallow tattoo in blue, red and yellow, with a thin black thread line running from its beak to a grey spool and needle, on a forearm.
Swallow with thread and needle on a forearm
Traditional style tattoos on a forearm, including a red rose, a spool of red thread and a bee, with the hand holding a white pot with a succulent against a plain white background.
Traditional rose and thread tattoos on a forearm
Colourful traditional-style tattoo on a forearm showing a teal yarn ball, scissors, a spool of thread, a measuring tape and a red pincushion.
Sewing notions and yarn ball on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a red thread spool with a needle and looped thread on the upper arm, in a traditional style.
Red thread spool and needle on upper arm
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a blue sewing spool and needle with banners reading MAY YOUR BOBBIN ALWAYS BE FULL, on a limb.
Blue spool with banners reading May your bobbin always be
Black and grey vintage-style tattoos of sewing tools, including a thimble, scissors, pin cushion and dress form, on a woman's forearm.
Sewing tools tattoos on a forearm
Colour fine line tattoo on a forearm showing dashed stitch-style script reading Lovely, with pink and blue thread spools, a needle and red and purple buttons.
Stitched Lovely script with spools and buttons
Fine line drawing of a thread spool, dress form, dashed heart and needle joined by a single continuous thread, drawn in dark ink on a tan background.
Sewing notions in a fine line design
Hand-drawn flash design of purple flowers, a thimble and a teal thread spool inside a dotted circle, shown on paper surrounded by buttons and drawing tools.
Flowers, thimble and thread spool design
Realistic black and grey tattoo of a fishing reel with coiled line on the forearm.
Fishing reel on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red and blue sewing thread spool with a needle and white flowers and green leaves, on the skin of the upper body.
Sewing spools and needle with flowers
Coloured flash drawing of a vintage sewing machine with a pink rose, dark buds and green leaves, in a neo-traditional style on pale paper.
Sewing machine and rose design
Fine line tattoo of a thread spool, dress form, dashed heart and needle joined by a single thread line, in dark teal ink on skin.
Sewing motif with spool, dress form and needle
Traditional colour tattoo of scissors, thread spools, a measuring tape and a banner reading Create on a forearm, shown beside its grey pencil design.
Sewing tools and banner on a forearm
Black ink tattoo of a vintage sewing machine with CAROLINA lettering on the body, placed on the upper arm in an engraved style.
Vintage sewing machine on upper arm
Fine line black tattoo of a thread spool, dress form, dashed heart and needle linked by a single thread line, shown on skin.
Sewing tools and heart on a continuous thread
Two traditional style colour tattoos on a forearm pair, one with scissors, thread and buttons on a MAKE banner and one with a whisk, rolling pin and flowers on a BAKE banner.
Make and Bake sewing and baking forearm tattoos
Black line drawing flash design of two swallows, a spool of thread with scissors and a needle, and a banner reading CRAFT OR DIE, in a traditional style.
Swallows, thread spool and CRAFT OR DIE banner
Black and grey tattoo of scissors, a thread spool, needles and a thimble on the side of the ribs, drawn in fine detailed linework.
Sewing tools tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a thread spool with a needle on the inner upper arm.
Thread spool and needle on upper arm
Black line flash design of two fists with HAND MADE across the knuckles, beside a spool of thread, scissors, a needle and yarn.
Hand made fists with sewing tools
Line drawing flash of a ball of yarn with crochet hooks, a thimble, a spool and buttons above a CRAFTY banner, with brown and red shading.
Crafty yarn ball flash design
Black and grey flash design of a crab holding a thread spool and needle, framed by sunburst motifs above and below, with the word Cancer beneath.
Crab, thread spool and sunburst design
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a thread spool with a needle and loose thread on an upper arm.
Spool of thread and needle on an upper arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a shaded spool of thread with looping thread and a dotted trail, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Spool of thread on a forearm
Colour tattoo of stitched patchwork hexagons in red and grey with a pair of scissors, a thread spool and a pin on the upper arm.
Patchwork hexagons with scissors and thread
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a thread spool with a thread running down to a needle across the finger on the back of a hand.
Spool of thread and needle on a hand
Colour tattoo of pink scissors, an embroidery hoop, a green thread spool and a needle, in traditional style with black outlines, on skin.
Scissors, hoop and thread spool
Black and grey sewing machine, dress form and buttons with a red flower and a banner reading POR VIDA, tattooed on a forearm, in a traditional style.
Sewing machine and dress form on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a ball of yarn, two knitting needles, buttons and a thread spool on an ankle.
Yarn ball, knitting needles and buttons on an ankle
Black line drawing flash design of a thread spool with crossed needles, a crown, scissors and a banner reading Make Things, in a traditional ornamental style.
Spool, needles and Make Things banner
Colour neo-trad tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder of a hand with a raised middle finger, surrounded by scissors, thread, a paintbrush and ink bottle, with PRIDE IN CRAFT on banners.
Hand and craft tools on an upper arm
Black script lettering on a side ribcage reading a line about being stitched together, with coloured sewing motifs including a red thread spool, three buttons and a tomato pincushion.
Script quote on ribs with sewing motifs