I made my first ghillie while serving in the Army. We didn’t have kits. We had to make every thing from scratch. We had to shred jute materials. From sand bags. Or sheets of jute we found. We died every strand. We took BDUs and first turned the jacket inside out. Then died it. Glued and hand sewn the 550 cord on it. Sewed panels of canvas on the elbows and front then hand sewn it and added sleeping pad cut to size and slotted it inside the panels. Same with the trouser. Thighs and knees added canvas panels and foam panels inside. On the back of the trousers adding the 550 cord. A loop at the bottom of the trousers adding legs to slip over the arch of your boots to keep the trousers in position. Added a hood to the jacket also using 550 cord. Then taking the rest of the four days weaving the dyed jute. Once finished we’d do the muddy water crawl. And then stand for inspection. The instructor used a hivis can of paint to spray the defective spots. Which meant going back and reworking the spots.
I made my first ghillie while serving in the Army. We didn’t have kits. We had to make every thing from scratch. We had to shred jute materials. From sand bags. Or sheets of jute we found. We died every strand. We took BDUs and first turned the jacket inside out. Then died it. Glued and hand sewn the 550 cord on it. Sewed panels of canvas on the elbows and front then hand sewn it and added sleeping pad cut to size and slotted it inside the panels. Same with the trouser. Thighs and knees added canvas panels and foam panels inside. On the back of the trousers adding the 550 cord. A loop at the bottom of the trousers adding legs to slip over the arch of your boots to keep the trousers in position. Added a hood to the jacket also using 550 cord. Then taking the rest of the four days weaving the dyed jute. Once finished we’d do the muddy water crawl. And then stand for inspection. The instructor used a hivis can of paint to spray the defective spots. Which meant going back and reworking the spots.
I have seen videos on this, Looks like alot work
This hooded ghillie your building is a stalking ghillie. Not a sniper ghillie. But this works great. Look forward to the finished product
thx so much
I was making these for people years ago and charging 1K to do so. Then business stopped because of the great kits that came out.
they are alot of work