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Oct
Oct
Three names for one piece of printed cloth, and a trap built into the question: the names are not three synonyms, they are not three patterns, and at least…
Monthly Archives: October 2026
07
Oct
Oct
Bulgarian splinter is a foreign label. It is what collectors, illustrators and surplus dealers outside Bulgaria call a family of angular camouflage prints…
06
Oct
Oct
There is a version of the Leibermuster story that circulates comfortably: a brilliant late-war design, issued to the Waffen-SS, worn across the collapsing…
05
Oct
Oct
In December 2025 the Slovak Ministry of Defence presented a new combat uniform for the professional armed forces, designated Personal Clothing System –…
04
Oct
Oct
Two U.S. Navy camouflage patterns dominate search results, marketplace listings and forum arguments, and almost every argument starts with the same mistake…
03
Oct
Oct
The six-colour desert pattern, “chocolate chip”, was a decade-old specialist uniform when the 1990-91 Gulf War turned it into the most photographed camouflage on earth. What it is, where it came from, and why other desert patterns are so often mistaken for it.
02
Oct
Oct
Frog skin and duck hunter: what the 1942 US camouflage uniform’s record does and does not show, and how to tell wartime cloth from later copies.
01
Oct
Oct
The Waffen-SS pea dot was printed, not drawn: its round grains are the raster of a five-colour fabric press. The first non-reversible SS camouflage, 1944.
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