Camouflage material

Abstract

Camouflage material is provided for concealing personnel and equipment from people or animals having geometric and/or color perception. A sheet of material has two dimensions, such as length and width, with a plurality of spaced apart rows of cuts extending across the sheet in both directions. The rows of cuts preferably are spaced apart generally equidistant and generally parallel to each other in both directions to form a generally uniform pattern of cuts. In the preferred embodiment, the cuts are generally W-shaped with two leg portions or generally truncated W-shaped with one leg portion, the leg portions extending at an angle to the direction of the respective row of which the cut is a part. The pattern is such that the cuts in each row in one direction either extend between the cuts of the rows in the opposite direction or completely interrupt the cuts of the rows in the opposite direction so that the cuts in both direction interlock. Thus, stretching the material in either direction extends the inverted base portions of the cuts in the rows transverse to the stretch direction out of the plane of the sheet. This effects extension of cuts out of the plane of the sheet across substantially the entire sheet when the sheet is stretched either in a length-wise or width-wise direction.

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