Jute VS Burlap

[friarsn]

Hey, I'm thinkin of starting a ghillie project this year and just wondering if there is an advantage in using one or the other. I've been looking around for a while now (here, google....) and can't really find anything that's worth making a decision on. Everything I've found on google and other searches is just a companies argument on their product vs everything else.

So I thought I'd ask around here and see what some of you think

[Brian McIlmoyle]

Originally Posted by friarsn

Hey, I'm thinkin of starting a ghillie project this year and just wondering if there is an advantage in using one or the other. I've been looking around for a while now (here, google....) and can't really find anything that's worth making a decision on. Everything I've found on google and other searches is just a companies argument on their product vs everything else.

So I thought I'd ask around here and see what some of you think

Um Burlap is a fabric made of Jute

[Capt. Tyco]

I made my ghilie suite using the next generation kit. It uses synthetic fibres that are water proof and rot proof. I have been very happy with the quality.

[Sha Do]

Originally Posted by Brian McIlmoyle

Um Burlap is a fabric made of Jute

LOL...absolutely. The natural fiber is called hennas (something like that), where jute is just hennas spun like wool, then cut to different lengths. Burlap is uncut jute woven into a mat.

Jute is best suited for use on a ghillie for the grassy environments.
Burlap can also be stripped down to use as jute in the above application, but best serves to imitate leafy foliage.
Use a combinatin of the two too create a ghillie that will suit the enviroment that you will be using it in most commonly.

SHA DO

[silent_recon]

i scrimmed my helmet for work using burlap, but i took out all the horizontal strands, wich makes it look like moss imo

looks pretty good, here i'll post a pic in a bit

[Auklin]

my Ghiliie is made from yarn. it works solidly and reduces the weight. Just make sure you add other bits of random string, such as jute or burlap.

[CDN_Stalker]

Adding strands of raffia grass really works well in a ghillie.

[Wilson]

The pink raffia works especially well.

[Kokanee]

Indeed Wilson, may all your enemies be drunken American tourists looking to score!

Made my ghillie last year by purchasing a roll of burlap from a gardening centre (they use it to wrap trees in the winter).... After cutting the roll into 18"x18" squares, I was able to strip it down into jute. Definitely the cheapest way to get jute, but very labour intensive.

[Amos]

Originally Posted by Kokanee

Indeed Wilson, may all your enemies be drunken American tourists looking to score!

Made my ghillie last year by purchasing a roll of burlap from a gardening centre (they use it to wrap trees in the winter).... After cutting the roll into 18"x18" squares, I was able to strip it down into jute. Definitely the cheapest way to get jute, but very labour intensive.

Tell me about it.. lol

I did the same thing... I've got about... 20-30 hours into making my suit... and I'm nowhere near done...

[Wilson]

I've always wondered which dye would be best for colouring the jute. Some of the dyes I have used in the past (I bow-hunt and... stuff ) ran when they got wet.

[techobo]

I used RIT dye. I have been keeping my ghillie outside in a pile by the garden, and for a while it was hanging on a clothes line. None of the RIT ran.

I got my jute from crappy tire in rolls. They came in tan and green. Some was two strand and some was three. Once you unravel it (after attaching them), the strands look great.

[CDN_Stalker]

Originally Posted by Wilson

The pink raffia works especially well.

That is plastic raffia you bum!!!