Download free "Dragon in Clouds" vector pattern, a complex but beautiful Japanese stencil.

As the dragon represent a very common motif (in European cultures) and symbol (in Asian cultures), we hope that this stencil will be interesting to a large number of those visiting our site. Due to the fact that stencil patterns consist of closed contours, most of them are suitable for scroll saw woodworking technique. The dragon katagami pattern that we have presented here is adapted to both the stencil and the scroll saw techniques. Her we are dealing with an extremely complex pattern, and therefore it is not suitable for manual wood cutting, but with the use of a laser-cutter you can get a very nice decoration indeed.

This is also repeating pattern. By simply copying and scaling, it is possible to create a pattern of any size.

 

Dragon in Clouds - Japanese Stencil
Pattern category
Chinese and Japanese patterns
Laser cutting designs
Repeating patterns
Free vector categories
Grotesques & creatures
Stencils
Available file formats

In the picture you can see what it look like and you can download it in 2D CAD (dwg) or vector (svg or eps) file formats.

Pattern license
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license

 

This Japannese stencil pattern originates from the old book “Kata-gami: Japanese stencils in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (published: 1979)” and represents a very nice example of kata-gami technique. A collection of Japanese stencil patterns (kata-gami patterns) in the possession of the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum has been presented in a book published by the museum.

Katagami stands for Japanese paper stencils used to transfer patterns to fabric for dyeing . The paper for katagami technique are obtained from mulberry bark, and the patterns are derived by cutting with knives of various sizes and shapes.

 

Download SVG vector file format
dragon_in_clouds_japanese_katagami_stencil.svg
Download DWG file format
dragon_in_clouds_japanese_katagami_stencil.dwg
Download EPS vector file format
dragon_in_clouds_japanese_katagami_stencil_eps.zip

Submitted by Ceh Jan

 

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