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Lighthouse

A lighthouse tower. The only architecture row in this sub-batch with a clear tattoo-tradition home: a professional education page lists it among the nautical themes “found often in American Traditional”. NO SYMBOLIC EDGE - the guidance and safe-harbour reading a reader will expect is NOT stated by any fetched source, and it is not asserted here. Note also a near-miss caught during the audit: 'Lighthouse' appears elsewhere in the fetched corpus only as a tattoo STUDIO name, which is not an attestation of the motif.
Thin
Low confidenceresearched

0 attested · 2 promoted1 source · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
architecture
Variants
lighthouse with waves; lighthouse with ship
Common styles
american traditional
Common themes
maritime

Provenance

1 resolved

  • Traditional Style Tattoos: Drawing Tutorial (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattooing 101

    Professional tattoo education page. Enumerates the traditional element list verbatim: "Butterflies, moths, wolves, tigers, bears, panthers, snakes, eagles, owls, hourglasses, skulls, portraits, pin up girls, guns, and daggers are all common elements in traditional tattoo design", and separately "nautical themes are found often in American Traditional like anchors, lighthouses, mermaids, ships, sharks, octopuses, messages in a bottle, compasses, and rope". Unusually for a trade page it also states COMPOSITION behaviour: "using a dagger in your designs can emphasize the lines of the body", and that a rope frame "makes designs more circular to fit rounded areas better". Those two are the only composition_behaviors values in this sub-batch that are sourced rather than blank.

    professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-30

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Associated with · 1

  • → outgoingMaritimeThemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_lighthouse ('maritime'). 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.

Frequently used in · 1

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

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_lighthouse ('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.