What Is A Ghillie Suit?
A ghillie suit is an outfit that is used for camouflage. Also known as a yowie suit, a ghillie suit is used by hunters and snipers to help them blend into their surroundings, so they can?t be seen.
Ghillie suits were originally developed by Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blind, so that hunters could blend into the surroundings to hunt and not be seen by wild game.
Ghillie suits can be made in several different ways and with a variety of materials. Some ghillie suits makers use Hessian, a rough burlap in flutes that are attached to a net poncho. Other makers use a jute twine to attach to a net poncho.
The US army ghillie suits use a pilot?s flight suit as the base or battle dress uniform. The most common ghillie suit base is durable nylon netting.
The base of a ghillie suit is made with a stainable durable fabric such as burlap. As nearly invisible as possible, fishing line or unscented dental floss is used to sew each knot of net to the fabric where the camouflage is going to be attached. Hot glue or shoe glue is applied to each knot to strengthen the ghillie suit. From there, the desired camouflage is applied to the netting by tying groups of 5-10 strands of a color to the net with simple knots?the colors are intermixed to create a camouflage appearance.
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