Model in the Blooms in the Dark hoodie with large rose back print, standing in a container yard

Blooms
in the Dark.

Original rose flash, printed as big as it goes on the back of hoodies and tees.

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Blooms in the Dark

Three roses, two cuts. Printed as big as it goes.

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Pick your flash

Three designs, two cuts. Pick it off the wall like you would in the shop.

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Pick your cut

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Oni Mask Tee – black, maximum-size back print, flat lay
T-shirts6 items
Reaper's Rose Hoodie – black, maximum-size back print, flat lay
Hoodies6 items
Tattooed man in 19th-century Japan, full back tattoo
Japan, 19th century. Clean up front, loud on the back. Coloured photograph, Wellcome Collection, public domain.

Dead Sailor.
Living ink.

Nobody hands you a manual for who to be. Or they do, and you throw it away. Old-school tattoo flash was never about fitting in: symbols you pick yourself, that nobody gave you permission for, and that you don't take off.

Every Dead Sailor design starts as original artwork in the classic flash tradition: bold lines, few colours, no compromise. Clean on the front, loud on the back. For the creatives, the outsiders, the misfits. The ones society never made a box for. We are that box.

380 g/m²
Brushed cotton fleece
Original
Flash artwork
Big back
Clean front

Be the face
of Dead Sailor.

We're always looking for real people with ink, attitude and a story. No experience needed. Just send us a DM on Instagram.

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The next drop is coming

New flash is always on the table. The list gets first look and first pick, before it goes public. No spam. Just ink.