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Embroidery tattoo designs

A tattoo pretending to be thread: visible stitches, satin sheen, the raised border of a sew-on patch. Pure trompe-l'oeil, and one of the most shared styles of the last few years.

Every motif in Embroidery

111 motifs, each drawn once in this style. Open a design to see it large, or follow the motif through all twenty-three styles.

What Embroidery does to a motif

Ink imitating stitched thread: visible stitch direction, satin sheen, a patch-like border. A trompe-l'oeil style that lives or dies on the texture being convincing.

The other styles

Every motif in this library is drawn in all twenty-three. Compare the same subject across them.

Make your own embroidery design

These are reference designs. In the AI Tattoos app you can generate your own version of this motif, restyle it with one tap, and see it on a photo of your own skin with the depth-aware Studio before you book anything.

About these designs

This is a reference library, not a shop. Nothing here is for sale and no tattoo can be ordered from this page. Take a design to a professional tattoo artist, who will adapt it to your body, your placement and their own hand. Meanings attached to motifs are cultural and vary between traditions; where a motif belongs to a living tradition, read about it before wearing it.