Creating a Ghillie Suit

Creating a Ghillie Suit

One of the Milites Dei full-time students are busy creating a handmade Ghillie Suit. Hunters and nature photographers may wear a ghillie suit to blend into their surroundings and conceal themselves from enemies or targets. The suit gives the wearer’s outline a three-dimensional breakup, rather than a linear one. When manufactured correctly, the suit will move in the wind in the same way as surrounding foliage. The Ghillie Suites (available at http://www.theghilliesuits.com/history.html) explains that ‘…The word ghillie is an old Scottish term for a special kind of game warden. Ghillies were tasked with protecting the game on their Lord’s lands from poachers. From time to time, the ghillies would stalk the game by hiding in the grass and lying perfectly still. They would wait for unsuspecting deer to amble by and then leap out and grab it with their bare hands. Ghillies would then haul their prize back to the keep so the Lord could shoot it in the castle courtyard in a “mock hunt.”’

A Milites Dei Student Creates a Handmade Ghillie Suit