Free cowboy hat SVG files

A hat to put on something

Nearly everyone who searches for a cowboy hat wants to set it on top of something else: a name, a cow, a gnome, a pumpkin, a skull, a letter of the alphabet. The front view is made for that. It is the same on both sides, its crown is in the exact middle, and the front of the brim dips in a smooth curve, so it sits naturally over a round head. Scale it until the crown is about as wide as the head underneath and lower it until the brim covers the top.

The profile silhouette is the one to use for a figure seen from the side, such as a rider or a horse.

Cutting notes

The band on the solid hats is two slots about 1.5 mm wide when the hat is 100 mm across; they stop short of the sides of the crown, so the hat stays in one piece. The tips of the brim are the parts that lift first in vinyl, so burnish them well. The straw hat has the most to weed: dozens of small diamonds, each under 6 mm wide in the 100 mm file, so cut that one at full size or larger and use a strong grip mat.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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