Maiden Stone Pictish Tattoo Design mummy A perfect way as shown

A perfect way as shown here to extend a small tattoo into something of substance

Celtic knotwork flows seamlessly to form a set of serpents twining together to represent the union of opposites

or that element can be left unaccented

or left with stark high contrast

A classic symbol for the Celts who crossed the pond to the North

Maiden Stone Pictish Tattoo Design mummy A perfect way as shownThe carvings on the Maiden Stone date to the 4th century. Found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the pink granite monolith is one of the finest examples of a Pictish cross slab. The stone commemorates a local Maiden who made (and lost) a wager with a stranger, who turned out to be the Devil. She fled, and uttering a prayer just as he caught up to her, was turned to stone.