Free tiger SVG files

Cutting the stripes

Every tiger here is 100 mm on its longer side. The stripes are what make it a tiger, and they are also what takes the time. Each one is a separate tapered hole that stops short of the outline, so the edge of the animal stays whole and the tiger lifts as one piece. On the walking tiger the stripes are about 3 mm wide at the broad end. In vinyl, weed the outside first, then pick each stripe out from its broad end with a hook.

The body left between the stripes is narrow too: about 2 mm at the tightest on the walking and roaring tigers. That is fine in vinyl and card at full size, but too fine for 3 mm plywood below about 150 mm. For wood, felt or anything small, use the tiger silhouette, the cute tiger face or the tiger cub, where nothing is narrower than 3.4 mm.

Stripes without the tiger

Three designs are stripes on their own. Tiger stripes is a swatch of loose stripes to lay over a shirt, a letter or a tumbler: cut it from heat transfer vinyl and press it as one sheet so the spacing holds. The tiger print stencil is the reverse, a panel with the stripes cut through it for sponging on paint or fabric bleach. The tiger stripe heart puts the same stripes inside a heart.

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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