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Coffin

A coffin, in traditional flash usually the six-sided 'toe-pincher' silhouette. Its evidence is unusual in this sub-batch: the source says nothing about what a coffin MEANS and everything about what it DOES to a composition - “using a coffin can add more structure to the tattoo and fill the space (like on a calf)”. That is a composition and placement fact, and it is recorded in those columns rather than promoted into a symbolic edge.
Thin
Low confidenceresearched

0 attested · 5 promoted1 source · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
object
Variants
coffin with rose; open coffin
Common styles
american traditional; blackwork
Common themes
death and mortality
Placement behaviors
calf
Composition behaviors
adds structure and fills space around another motif

Provenance

1 resolved

  • 12 Classic Rose Tattoo Stencil Designs (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattooing 101

    Professional tattoo education site. Verbatim: "Roses are one of the most common tattoo designs out there." On meaning it says "clocks are a reminder of limited time, while roses represent love" and "Hearts and roses are often used to symbolize love." On pairing: "skull and rose tattoos are among the most popular designs in the world." Cited for the rose-love edge, for the rose+skull and rose+heart pairings, and for rose composition behaviour (a stemmed rose "works well for clients who want something along the lines of the body").

    professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-29

Related concepts

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Associated with · 2

  • → outgoingDeath and MortalityThemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_coffin ('death and mortality'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingCalfPlacementThin
    strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.placement_behaviors of motif_coffin ('calf') [class EP]. PLACEMENT AXIS. Typed associated_with, not placement_supports: the packs use placement_supports only as placement -> composition (doc 01 'forearm -> placement_supports -> vertical_composition'; specimen rel_0004), and model motif -> placement as 'anatomy_fit', which is not in the locked 14. The placement_ target prefix carries the axis. The cited source states this placement. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.

Frequently used in · 2

  • → outgoingAmerican TraditionalStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_coffin ('american traditional'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingBlackworkStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_coffin ('blackwork'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Supports composition · 1

  • → outgoingBackground FieldCompositionThin
    strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_coffin ('adds structure and fills space around another motif') [class EC]. Source is the supporting concept, target the composition, mirroring placement_supports. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.