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Post by MAEMT86 on Nov 20, 2012 0:10:19 GMT -5
Not sure if this is the best place for it, but I didn't want to limit it to either German or American threads. Does anyone out there currently sell repro camo netting, either German or American or a source for good intact originals? (the netting with the canvas/burlap woven into) ![](http://i26.servimg.com/u/f26/14/56/79/88/net11010.jpg) I'm looking for something about 12x12 to hang from the ceiling in a war room. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Post by twhigham on Nov 21, 2012 22:46:24 GMT -5
What I did was make my own using shrimp netting and burlap from a fabric store. Total cost was about $200 and a lot of sore fingers and lost Saturdays spent cutting burlap and weaving the strips through the netting. If you just want something to hang from a ceiling, you'd be better off using parachute material, as the net will be quite heavy with the scrim and may damage your ceiling.
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Post by 2ndengrbn on Nov 25, 2012 19:38:47 GMT -5
I have a Vietnam Era 12x22 net like the picture you posted. The netting is about 3 inches square with burlap garnish woven into it, it's heavy and it stinks. They are very hard to find and expensive when you do. If you try to make your own; most of the shrimp net I have seen is very small netting squares. I can see where twhigham would have sore fingers trying to weave burlap into that small netting. I have seen garnish (burlap) rolls in a few surplus stores, it's 2 inches wide and 1 or 2 hundred feet long. I have seen it in Brown and OD, the Brown is not hard to work with as it doesn't have much dye in it, but the OD is stiff and the dye or whatever it is on it rubs off. Oh yeah, the OD stinks. So parachute material would be a lot easier to use.
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Post by MAEMT86 on Nov 25, 2012 20:04:23 GMT -5
Well looks like I'll try and scrounge up some parachute material then...the netting is sounding like a pain in the ass.
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Post by ww2dave on Nov 29, 2012 12:03:38 GMT -5
Search on line... you can buy all kinds of different sized netting for making your own. Don't forget painting tarps too... the WW II Camo manual shows all kinds of ideas for weaving nets and painting tarps and nets. Dave ![:-X](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/WWIIForum/Smilies/evilgrin0007.gif)
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Post by HorseSoldier176 on Nov 29, 2012 14:44:10 GMT -5
If making your own, weaving the burlap camo strips is a good detail to have troops do at a living history event, as it is a detail that troops would have actually done in a field camp situation.
There are some Soviet nets sold on E-Bay, but you have to watch that what you are bidding on is not the new synthetic stuff, but the old all natural fiber stuff.
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Post by HorseSoldier176 on Dec 3, 2012 11:41:32 GMT -5
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