Free farmer SVG files

A figure built to be cut

The farmer is drawn from the front in simple, heavy parts: a hat, a head, a square body and tapered arms and legs. On the farmer with a pitchfork at 100 mm tall the arms are about 6 mm wide, the legs about 9 mm and the handle of the pitchfork about 3.5 mm, so the figure is sturdy in vinyl, card and thin plywood. The tines of the fork are the finest solid parts at 2 to 3 mm, and the lines of the overalls are cuts a little under 2 mm wide.

Those fine lines set the smallest useful size. For iron-on on a shirt, 90 mm tall or more keeps the straps and the pocket clear. For a small sticker or a gift tag, use the farmer silhouette, which has no lines inside the figure, or the pitchfork on its own.

Which farmer for which job

The silhouette stands on a flat strip of ground, so it can be cut from card or wood and stood upright in a shadow box or along a shelf. The farmer on a tractor suits a birthday shirt or a sign for the yard. The chicken farmer and the farmer’s wife with her eggs are for people who keep hens, and the little farmer is drawn chunky for children’s clothes. The monogram frame leaves a round space for an initial or a farm name, and the rack of tools works as a border above a row of coat hooks in a boot room.

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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