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Phoenix Ash Device preview
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Phoenix Ash Device

Ash places the emphasis after the fire rather than during it. Drawing on later phoenix traditions of death and renewed life, this device becomes an emblem of loss endured, what remains, and the possibility of beginning again.

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CommercialRenewalStrengthTransformationHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Pictish Beast preview
Pictish Symbols£0.99

Pictish Beast

With its long snout, curved body and unmistakably unfamiliar anatomy, the Pictish Beast is one of the most enigmatic creatures carved on Pictish stones. Its identity—and what it meant to the people who carved it—remains unknown.

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CommercialStrengthResilienceIdentityHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Pilgrim Ampulla preview
Heraldry & Emblems£0.99

Pilgrim Ampulla

Small lead-alloy ampullae let medieval pilgrims carry water, oil or other shrine-associated substances home, turning a sacred journey into something tangible that could be kept and remembered.

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CommercialFaithMemoryHealingHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Pilgrim Bell preview
Heraldry & Emblems£0.99

Pilgrim Bell

Small bells survive among the material traces of medieval pilgrimage, including examples linked with Thomas Becket's shrine at Canterbury, where they served as portable reminders of a sacred journey and place.

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CommercialFaithIdentityMemoryHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Pilgrim Staff and Scrip preview
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Pilgrim Staff and Scrip

The staff and scrip were practical companions of the medieval pilgrim and became instantly recognisable attributes of pilgrimage, evoking the road, endurance, dependence, and devotional purpose.

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CommercialFaithResilienceGuidanceHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Plain Double-disc Sign preview
Pictish Symbols£0.99

Plain Double-disc Sign

Two linked circular forms appear without an accompanying Z-rod on the ninth-century Ulbster Stone in Caithness, creating the motif catalogued as the Plain Double-disc Sign. Its geometry is clear, but its original significance is not.

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CommercialBalanceFamilyIdentityHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Plain Serpent preview
Pictish Symbols£0.99

Plain Serpent

Carved without an accompanying rod or geometric device, the Plain Serpent offers a striking animal form within the Pictish symbol tradition. The example on Glamis 2 in Angus survives on an eighth-century cross-slab, but its original significance is unknown.

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CommercialTransformationRenewalIdentityHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Polygon Knot Sign preview
Sacred Geometry£0.99

Polygon Knot Sign

A path repeatedly crosses, turns, and continues without losing its structure, giving the Polygon Knot Sign a contemporary language for resilience, family, strength, connection, and relationships built through complexity.

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CommercialResilienceFamilyStrengthHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Poppy Time Seal preview
Gothic & Memento Mori£0.99

Poppy Time Seal

A remembrance poppy set against a measure of time links individual loss with the years that follow, asking how memory is carried after those who witnessed an event are gone.

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CommercialDeathMemoryRenewalHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Portolan Wind Rose preview
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Portolan Wind Rose

Portolan charts transformed medieval seafaring knowledge into dense networks of coasts and directional lines; the later wind rose distils that navigational tradition into an emblem of orientation and guidance.

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CommercialGuidanceResilienceProtectionHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Pyramid Horizon Seal preview
Occult & Esoteric£0.99

Pyramid Horizon Seal

A contemporary seal inspired by Egyptian pyramidions and solar-horizon imagery, combining funerary architecture with themes of the sun’s passage, renewal and the afterlife.

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CommercialProtectionRenewalGuidanceHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Quintessence Frame preview
Occult & Esoteric£0.99

Quintessence Frame

A contemporary frame built around the alchemical idea of quintessence, the fifth essence beyond the four elements, interpreted here through balance, wisdom and transformation.

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CommercialBalanceWisdomTransformationHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Radial Hex Emblem preview
Sacred Geometry£0.99

Radial Hex Emblem

A stable hexagonal order expands outward through repeated radial lines, making this emblem less about stillness than coordinated growth: strength, balance, resilience, and movement that keeps returning to a centre.

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CommercialBalanceStrengthGuidanceHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Red King Sign preview
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Red King Sign

A contemporary sign based on the alchemical Red King, an allegorical figure associated with conjunction, union and transformation in late medieval and early modern manuscript traditions.

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CommercialTransformationStrengthWisdomHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Renewal Moth Mark preview
Gothic & Memento Mori£0.99

Renewal Moth Mark

The moth's real metamorphosis gives this mark a natural foundation for change: an earlier form is left behind, making renewal inseparable from vulnerability, transition, and the loss of what came before.

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CommercialTransformationRenewalDeathHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Repeated Pentacles Tablet preview
Nautical & Maritime£0.99

Repeated Pentacles Tablet

Repeated pentacle-like forms give this tablet the density of a ritual manuscript page, but its meaning lies in modern ideas of boundary, focus, faith, and protection rather than a copied historical operation.

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CommercialProtectionFaithIdentityHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Ritual Hand Glyph preview
Occult & Esoteric£0.99

Ritual Hand Glyph

Hands are where intention becomes action: they make, offer, protect, promise and point. This original glyph uses that familiar human form as an emblem of personal agency, commitment and choosing to act with purpose rather than simply wishing for change.

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CommercialFaithGuidanceIdentityHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Root Flame Mark preview
Occult & Esoteric£0.99

Root Flame Mark

Some change begins where nobody can see it. Roots beneath a flame turn this mark into an image of hidden strength, pressure and transformation rising from a foundation.

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CommercialResilienceTransformationStrengthHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Rope Frame preview
Nautical & Maritime£0.99

Rope Frame

Rope is useful because fibres and strands work together under load; wrapped into a frame, that practical maritime material becomes a fitting symbol of connection, continuity, resilience, and boundaries that hold.

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CommercialResilienceStrengthFamilyHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Rose and Ash Device preview
Gothic & Memento Mori£0.99

Rose and Ash Device

The rose holds beauty, love, and memory in a recognisable form while ash shows what form eventually becomes, creating a deliberate contrast between what is cherished, what is lost, and what remains.

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CommercialDeathLoveMemoryHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Rose Banner Blade preview
Flash Classics£0.99

Rose Banner Blade

Rose, blade and banner are all familiar parts of classic tattoo flash, but the words placed between them made each piece personal. This modern composition keeps that openness, pairing beauty with hardship and leaving space for the name, memory or promise that gives the emblem its real weight.

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CommercialFaithLoveMemoryHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Rose Tablet preview
Nautical & Maritime£0.99

Rose Tablet

Placed within a tablet-like frame, the rose feels less like decoration and more like a dedication: a familiar tattoo and memorial flower for love, devotion, beauty, remembrance, hope, and the memories we choose to preserve.

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CommercialFaithLoveMemoryHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Rowan Ward Crest preview
Occult & Esoteric£0.99

Rowan Ward Crest

Rowan has a stronger historical footing here than many plants in modern witch imagery: surviving British charms place its wood at doors and fireplaces as protection against witchcraft and misfortune. This new crest turns that documented association into an emblem of resilience, hope and guarded home.

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CommercialProtectionResilienceTransformationHistorically supported

Ornamental · documented field

Sacred Heart Dagger preview
Flash Classics£0.99

Sacred Heart Dagger

The Sacred Heart carries centuries of Christian devotion centred on divine love and suffering; the dagger belongs to a later flash vocabulary. Their modern combination makes devotion feel costly and physical: love held through pain rather than protected from it.

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CommercialFaithLoveResilienceHistorically supported