Free sloth SVG files

How the sloth face is cut

What makes a sloth a sloth is the face: a pale mask with a dark stripe through each eye that slopes down and outwards, a dark nose and a slow smile. In these files the pale part is cut away and the stripes, nose and smile are left behind. They all touch one another and the stripes run into the fur at each side, so nothing falls out and every sloth lifts as one piece. Cut the sloth from brown and back it with cream or tan and the face appears.

On the sloth face on its own, nothing is narrower than about 4 mm at 100 mm, so it works in card, vinyl, felt and 3 mm wood. On the whole sloths the face is smaller, and the thinnest parts, the smile and the claws, are about 2 mm at 100 mm. Keep those at 80 mm or taller, or use the sloth silhouette, which has no face to weed.

Claws and branches

Each hand and foot ends in three claws. They are short, pointed and about 3 mm wide at the base, so they cut cleanly but are the first parts to lift on vinyl: press them down last. Six of the sloths come with a branch. The branch is welded to the claws, which makes these designs easy to hang, or to weld on to the top of a name or a frame.

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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