Your ancestor’s portrait hand-cut as a silhouette
Have you wanted to see what your ancestor’s portrait would be - in a period-style portrait? Now you can have your own classic-style portraits on your walls of your own ancestors!
Your artist Lauren Muney is so skilled with her silhouette portraiture, she can create a silhouette from a straight-on photo.

Send a photo:
Send a photo of your ancestor. Your photo can be straight-on - Lauren will look for facial clues and cues, based on her experience created portraits and also of historical hairstyles and clothing, to simulate the period-looking silhouette.

Perfect for genealogy enthusiasts
If you have wanted to create your family tree in a visual way, these Ancestor Silhouettes are perfect to create a period-looking visual reference of all those long lost relatives! Create your own family tree across the walls, or choose a digital option for silhouettes to be made on other surfaces.

All Silhouettes are cut traditionally:
All silhouettes will be cut in the traditional way - freehand with only scissors - and contain the quirky, comforting, and quaint features of historical style silhouettes. For digital orders - Your traditionally-cut portraits will be be converted into a digital format after cutting.

Creating a family tree
If you would like to create a family tree but don’t have side view images - that’s one of the reasons this Ancestor As a Silhouette was created.

Digital Ancestor images: Perfect for lovers of tradition - for digital uses.
You’ll love these custom silhouette portraits from a master of silhouette portraiture. Your personal, custom digital silhouettes will look like they are cut from traditional matte-black paper; however it will not come by any postal service: your silhouette will be emailed directly to you.

Digital Ancestor - Printing, Design, or social media uses
The possibilities are endless how you can use a digital silhouette! Use it for social media, for logos, for designs on books, mugs, embroidery, and more.

Digital Ancestor - What you’ll receive
After you submit your order and photo(s) and your order is cut, you’ll get a digital silhouette only (no shipping fees or shipping delays!) by email —— and you’ll even receive my suggestion where to design your own tea towels, pillows, and other printed goods using your silhouette! Your digital silhouette will show minute and amazing details from the photo that you send. Your image will be high-resolution PNG or SVG images, perfect for all types of art projects or printing.

About the silhouettes
Your silhouettes are made from special matte-black paper and will look like the traditional silhouettes you may have seen in museums, historic houses, in movies, and other places - these portraits can span the waist to top of head. 

For frame-able silhouettes
Each silhouette is still cut by hand with only scissors in the traditional manner, and mounted on a card ready for framing.

Frames are not included with the silhouettes - it is an OPTIONAL purchase.
Feel free to use your own frame - whether from your attic or a store - or buy an optional frame or mat from Silhouettes By Hand.

Frame-able silhouettes: 2 copies
Silhouettes are traditionally cut as two (2) copies of the same person. For the customers of Silhouettes By Hand, mail-order silhouettes come standard with two (2) copies - one copy for you to keep, and one copy to give away.

Frame-able silhouettes: Ordering multiple copies of the same person
To order multiple copies of the same person, choose the number of copies you wish to have cut - you can give copies to several family members.

Frame-able silhouettes: Final Size
The silhouettes themselves are approximately 3-1/2 - 4" tall, and mounted singly on a 5x7 cardstock, as seen in the photos. Your silhouette will show what is seen in the photo that you send. Accepted image is waist-height to top of head. Pets will be “bust height” = chest upwards.

About Ordering ‘Quantity’
If you want to order silhouettes of different people, count the number of people you want to silhouettes, and order that quantity of silhouettes. People and animals are equally accepted for portraits.

How to order Family Portraits
Many families order family portraits in silhouettes. There are examples on this page. To make an order of, say, 4 people, you would order “Quantity of 4” silhouettes. You would then send photos of four (4) different people . You would receive eight (8) total silhouettes back, ready for framing - or order mats or frames from Silhouettes By Hand. (This even works if the family was 3 people and a cat, or a dog, or a parakeet… you get the point.)

Multiple copies, for Gift-Giving
These silhouettes are perfect for giving to two different people; or keeping one copy for yourself and giving the other silhouettes away as a gift! Multiple copies are a value-priced way to give a handmade gift - try to keep the secret that you didn’t spend a lot of money to give a quality gift.

Gift Certificate
Select this item if you wanted to create a GIFT CERTIFICATE as well. After making your product selection(s), you will be giving all GIFTING information in the Checkout of your order.

Terms
Please read the Terms to understand all details about your handmade portrait.

International Shipping (not USA)
Due to the postal expense to send from the USA to any other country, it is recommended that all orders are made without any mats or frames. These will be sent thin, letter-sized, and may be delayed due to artist schedule, post office schedule, and/or postal delays out of your artist’s control.

Shipping costs are added at the Checkout of your order.

"Quantity of 1" = 1 order of the number of copies of the same person --or pet .

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