Set this copy to a different fill color, so you can tell the two copies apart. Select all of the art inside your design (not the cut line on the outside) and duplicate it with Ctrl-D. It involves some complicated work in Inkscape - and it's worth it - but if this is your first seal, I won't blame you for not wanting to spend time on this. If we laser a shallow edge around the art, the wax will press into it more easily, and will be less likely to get stuck. The laser cutter will be rastering your art, and then cutting out your matrix piece.
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Feel free to use them to create your own! They're adapted from the files I used to create my seal for Laser Lace Letters and make a seal that's slightly less than 3/4" tall. If you want to make a seal that looks old, try using one of these open blackletter fonts from the Open Font Library.
Heraldry clip art from the Open Clip Art Library.
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If you have access to a laser cutter or can drop a few dollars at Ponoko, you can make a completely customized acrylic matrix for under $20. It turns out that making a custom wax seal is rather simple. There are a few places online where you can order custom made brass matrices (the part that makes the impression in the wax is called a matrix), but ever the DIYer, I wanted to see if I could make a serviceable acrylic matrix on the laser cutter at the Dallas Makerspace. " Doesn't your story involve tiny robot swarms, evil laser cutters and Aether travel?" they said.
" But didn't wax seals go out of fashion with the rise of the postal service, around before the Victorian period?" I said.
It's a victorian steampunk project, with stories told through letters and other documents, so I started asking my friends what they thought of when they heard the words "Victorian mail." Last week, I was fiddling with the packaging for Laser Lace Letters, and nothing quite seemed right.