Free hibiscus SVG files

What makes it read as a hibiscus

Three things separate a hibiscus from any other five-petalled flower: the petals are broad and frilled and overlap in one direction like a pinwheel, the veins fan out from a dark throat, and a single long column carrying the stamens sticks out past the petals. The veined flower and the silhouette here keep all three. The simple hibiscus drops the column, which makes it sturdier but closer to a generic tropical flower, so use it where size matters more than detail.

On the column, the anthers and the five stigmas are round dots under 4 mm across at 100 mm. They are the first thing to lift when you weed vinyl, so peel away from the tip of the column, not towards it.

Sizes and colours

The veined flower weeds cleanly in vinyl from about 70 mm across. For iron-on on stretch fabric, go to 100 mm or more so the vein slits do not close when the shirt is worn. Hibiscus flowers come in red, pink, orange, yellow and white, nearly always with a darker throat, which is why the layered version keeps the throat as its own piece.

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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