Category Archive: Butterfly Tattoos

Meanings of Closed Wing Butterfly Tattoos

An awesome unique butterfly tattoo design at upper back.

Because butterfly designs can lend themselves to a multitude of beautiful colour combinations, open and closed wing butterfly tattoos are extremely popular, particularly amongst women and girls.  They allow for much creativity and experimentation with colour, shape, design and size.  Closed wing butterfly tattoos can be more striking than open winged designs for smaller areas …

Continue reading »

Ancient Knotwork Art in Celtic Butterfly Tattoos

The elegant celtic butterfly tattoo at the back of girl's neck.

Celtic designs are highly symbolic patterns, with intricate knots and swirling lines and Celtic butterfly tattoos allow the artist to show this artwork at its very best.  In the Celtic zodiac, the butterfly relates chiefly to the month of November, but Celtic butterfly tattoos are often the design of choice because of their graceful beauty …

Continue reading »

Flying Butterfly Tattoos: Designs of Freedom

Two little blue butterflies tattoo on left shoulder blade.

Flying butterfly tattoos are undeniably the most popular designs requested by women all over the world.  If you have ever seen a lepidopterist’s display cabinets you might begin to understand why these beautiful creatures hold so much fascination for so many.  For one thing, there are over twenty thousand known species of butterfly throughout the …

Continue reading »

Elegant Butterfly Tattoos- Enhanced With Flower Designs

Women with flying blue butterfly tattoo standing in the library.

Colourful flower designs – with or without embellishments of elegant butterfly tattoos – account for the majority of tattoos favoured by women and it hardly takes the brain of a would-be Einstein to understand why.  Butterflies are beautiful, graceful and colourful creatures that are rich in symbolic meaning.  In the natural world, butterflies and flowers …

Continue reading »

Older posts «