Free swirl SVG files

How the swirls are made

A swirl is a line that winds in on itself. Each one here is a stroke with a width that changes along its length: full where the line sweeps, lighter inside the coil, and finished with a ball in the eye. The gap between one coil and the next is kept wide enough to weed, so the coils do not close up when the design is cut small.

The rounded double swirl and the lollipop are drawn in a line of one even width instead, which gives them a bolder, more modern look.

Using swirls

Swirls are fillers and finishers. Tuck a sprig into the corner of a card, run the border under a title, set the arch over a name, or let a single swirl trail from the last letter of a word. Mirrored pairs look deliberate: copy a swirl, flip it, and place the two either side of a monogram.

For vinyl, most of these cut well from about 50 mm across. The set of six is drawn small on purpose, so scale the sheet up to 200 mm before cutting and then separate the pieces. On a laser, the even-width designs are the strongest.

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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