Tealight Candle Holder SVG: 12 Free Laser Cut Files

The one here that is not built from ribs. It goes together from two flat layers: a petal base lies on the table, and an upright wall of petals stands around the candle in a ring.

Two patterns come in the file and they throw different light. One has petals filled with scrollwork, the other with concentric arcs. The first drops a broken, lacy shadow; the second lays down stripes. The base is cut through as well, so the pattern carries across the table around the flower rather than stopping at its edge.

The classic shape and the most recognisable one: ribs run the full way round, the candle sits in a cup on top, and light leaves downwards and sideways in even bands.

The maker includes something almost nobody bothers with: a 3 by 3 cm reference square inside the file. Open it, measure the square, and you know straight away whether the scale has shifted. That single detail fixes the most common problem with somebody else’s SVG — the piece cuts at the wrong size and you only find out once it is off the bed.

For 3 mm material, wood or acrylic. Eight formats in the archive: AI, EPS, SVG, PDF, DXF, CDR, JPG and PNG. The maker says outright to use an electric candle, with a real tealight as the fallback.

Same family as the sphere, built differently. The slats here are wide petals rather than narrow ribs, and they flare outwards instead of closing over the top, so the thing reads as a bud caught halfway open. The candle stands on a central post in the middle rather than sitting in a cup on the lid.

The practical difference is where the light goes. A closed sphere sends it sideways in bands; this one opens upward, so the flame itself stays visible and the glow lands on whatever is above it — a shelf, a face, the underside of a cabinet.

For 3 mm material. Formats: AI, CDR, DXF, EPS, PDF, SVG and JPG.

Two straight forms in one file: a tall cylinder at 180 mm and a squat barrel at 120 mm. The simplest to assemble and the steadiest of the ribbed group.

This is the first of three files by the same maker, and the approach is worth calling out. Drawings come ready for four thicknesses — 3, 3.2, 4 and 4.23 mm — so there is nothing to recalculate against your own plywood, you take the version that matches. An assembly video is included too.

One small snag people trip on: the files arrive as .rar rather than zip.

The ribs are drawn up to a point, and the silhouette reads as an onion dome. The light behaves differently from the sphere: a wide base drops a pool onto the table while the narrow top sends a thin beam at the ceiling.

Two sizes in the file, and the gap between them is real — 120 mm tall by 150 across, and 165 by 197. The second is not a shelf trinket any more, it is a piece that holds a table.

Same maker: four thicknesses to choose from, assembly video included.

The tallest shape here: the ribs fan out and curl, and the silhouette reads as a tongue of fire. Their edges are shaped rather than straight, so the shadow on the wall comes out serrated instead of striped.

Three variants in the set. Tab-and-slot assembly with no glue, for 3 mm plywood or MDF. The maker names the machines it was tested on: Glowforge, xTool and OMTech.

Two narrow lanterns on their own bases, walls filled with elongated leaves almost to the top. Of everything here these throw the largest pattern onto a wall, purely because of the height and the size of the openings.

Assembled size is 160 mm tall on an 80 by 80 base. Four thicknesses and an assembly video, as with the rest of this maker’s files.

Compact faceted bodies with dense fretwork on every wall, four of them in the set. One gives you a pool of light; four in a row give a continuous pattern across the whole wall.

Size is 10 by 10 by 12 cm, for 3 to 4 mm material. The maker adds a useful note: if you are cutting in LightBurn, use the DXF rather than the SVG.

Selling the finished pieces is allowed; reselling the file is not.

Three square lanterns with different floral panels — daisies, open flowers and climbing roses. The finger joints at the corners are left visible, which is a decision rather than an oversight: the box reads as made rather than moulded.

The fretwork here is the finest in the set, and that is the one to slow down for. Thin webbing burns away easily, so this is a file to test on an offcut before committing a sheet. Drawn for 4 mm; 180 by 100 by 100 mm assembled.

Stepped hexagonal bases, each holding two candles at different heights, with a geometric pattern running round the rim.

The difference in height is the whole point: side by side they build into an arrangement, while a single one just looks ordinary. For 3 mm material, wood or acrylic, eight formats in the archive.