Thread tattoo ideas

86 photos and flash · 40% Fine line, 27% Traditional · 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
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
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
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a forearm showing a sewing machine above the words 'As ye sew, so shall ye rip', in a lettering and traditional style.
As ye sew sewing machine tattoo on a forearm
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 colour tattoo of scissors, a ball of green yarn, a paintbrush, a pen nib and a red banner reading CRAFTY, with flowers, on a limb.
Crafty scissors and yarn tattoo
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
Pencil drawing of an anatomical heart with loops of thread wrapped around it, a flash design suitable for a tattoo in black and grey.
Anatomical heart wrapped in thread
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 tattoo of a crescent moon with spider webs and two spiders hanging on threads down the forearm, in a traditional style.
Crescent moon and spiders 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
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
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
Two traditional-style colour tattoos side by side on a forearm pair, one showing sewing tools with a MAKE banner and one showing baking tools with a BAKE banner.
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
Colour traditional tattoo of two swallows, a yellow measuring tape and a black needle and thread on the upper thigh.
Swallows and measuring tape on a thigh
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 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