Free wheat SVG files

Grains, gaps and awns

What makes an ear of wheat read is the herringbone of its grains, so here each grain is drawn separately with a gap of about a millimetre between it and the next. The grains are 8 to 12 mm long and about 4 mm wide when the file is 100 mm tall, and each one is welded to the stalk along its base. In vinyl the gaps weed cleanly from 80 mm tall. Below that, or in card and wood, use the wheat icon, whose five pairs of fat grains have wider gaps.

On the bearded wheat every grain carries an awn, the long bristle of barley and old wheats. The awns start 1.7 mm wide and narrow to a point, so they shorten slightly at small sizes but do not break off.

Where wheat belongs

Wheat says bread, beer and harvest. It suits bakery labels and bread bags, kitchen canisters marked flour, thanksgiving and harvest-festival tables, farmhouse signs and brewery marks. Cut it in gold or ochre on a dark ground, or burn it into a wooden bread board with a laser: the sheaf at 120 mm fills the corner of a board nicely.

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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