How to craft a Ghillie Suit

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Dag has a military background, plays Airsoft for many years and leads our Textile Team.
In this video, he shows his way to craft a Ghillie Suit. Enjoy crafting!

[lukebell]

When my grandad taught me how to make a ghillie he told me something along the lines of "Nature rarely has perfect patterns, so your ghillie suit shouldn't have perfect patterns. A messy, imperfect ghille suit, is a good ghillie suit." Excellent job on the suit and tutorial. This is an excellent example of an imperfect ghillie suit that'll blend in better than any perfect suit.

[Foxtrott]

Felt a bit like "The Joy of Painting", but instead of pictures, with Ghillie suits hahahah

[NuttyCuts_]

Very useful video. Its always better to be taught something by someone who actually knows what he's doing and not just guessing.

[Donuts_random_stuff]

Also something important is if your making a ghillie suit from the beginning so without a base take a camouflage like multicam because that’s a lighter colour. It’s easier to adapt a lighter ghillie to a darker environment than to adapt a dark ghillie to a lighter environment

[rha]

That's awesome. this is the best instruction video for the ghillie around by far.

Just FYI, what you called Jute is the burlap and what you called burlap is the jute.

[cardboardnods]

I've wanted to learn how to make a ghillie for so long

[Enderking]

I'm literally gonna use this to scare the kids who take more than the set amount of candy on Halloween. Just yeet out of the bushes screaming like a banshee.

Bravo six, going dark screaming monster.

[smokezz]

Thanks, Doug, great vid. Even KM hasn't showed this type of video where he crafts and talks about it. This way you can see the result and understand how to do it better.

[iracarew]

you could even make a home made ghillie just using the net, the bob ross of ghillies

[alexandrevaliquette]

Bob Ross: There is no mistake, just happy accident!
Sniper from heaven: I shouldn't have put that pink burlap

[INO]

Oh look a Ian McCollum (Forgotten Weapons) lookalike

[MochiMoose]

I don’t understand why people always make ghillies with bits and pieces spread out all over, with the mindset to just cover it and mix it up. Yes, that’s decent in general, but nature doesn’t grow in bits and pieces, it grows in clumps. I would think it would be better to have a few areas of the suit with larger bundles of one or another artificial materials. Macro vs micro camouflage.

If you have micro camouflage everywhere, your suit becomes more of a dark bundle of the hodgepodged material that doesn’t break up the human outline very well. Makes you look more like a Wookiee. Ghillie suits are typically used by snipers, so macro patterns are more important for breaking up the human outline at distance than micro ones, which are more important if you are facing counter sniper. But if that’s the case, you’d want to position yourself behind a thermal sniper veil against a modern enemy, in which case, the micro patterns are less important anyhow. Jute and burlap should be used for creating a fullness to the suit. If you’ve used a ghillie and done your ghillie wash, these end up clumping and looking very unnatural up close, but create depth and shadows that are important. Use different variations of the colors you’re trying to blend with. Artificial leaves are part of the micro because leaves fall all over, while raffia imitates grass and grass grows in bundles, not sparsely (aka macro).

One thing for sure that he didn’t bring attention to is breaking up your head and shoulder outline. This is where a macro pattern of raffia with burlap AND jute underneath to give it depth and fullness would be good bundled up particularly heavy on one side between the neck and the shoulder, to round out that outline, and then another larger bundle on the other side closer to the top of your deltoid where it meets the shoulder….

I think people are still focused on the old ways of camouflage with macro patterns, or micro patterns only, when you need both to effectively blend the human profile with your surroundings.

One Company’s camo pattern that works EXCEPTIONALLY well in breaking up the human outline without even the aid of nature imitating peripherals is PNUMA OUTDOORS. Their Caza Camo, licensed through Veil Camo, is EXCEPTIONAL. Their use of macro and micro patterns with color is simply a masterpiece. This is something you would want to imitate in your ghillie. If you do go with micro throughout the entire ghillie, you will want to dust or ink the pieces you are hanging off of it sporadically across the suit and then just use natural veg from your surroundings in the field for your macro patterns.

[DeltaSniper_official]

It seems like this crazy hard thing to craft a ghillie, but this one is almost crafted out of the box AND you can buy quality artificial foliage and raffia.

[deotexh]

Remind me a old tutorial from "Les frères Hublots" Aka "Gearlocker"

[beanie.weanie]

I need to make one in time for halloween

[eng-aholiccustomz]

Let me paint a little happy ghillie over here and over there just wherever you feel like putting your ghillie! Remember folks this is your creation nobody can tell you what to do with your ghillie just paint a little happy ghillie anywhere you like. And I'll see you folks next week thanks again for watching painting with Bob Ghillie.

[digitaal_boog]

I actually decided to make my own suit because I saw a guy in an indoor CQB in full ghillie. Kinda funny

[UmbraSTI]

Thank you. This level of information and the insight you provide is fantastic. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.

[ItsJujex]

BTW guys you can also sew your leaf's onto your suite but it does take some time to sew

[KailordYT]

Thank you for this, I HAVE WANTED TO DO THIS FOREVER!!