Camouflage knitted article

摘要

A camouflage fabric having (1) opposed surface areas of a size sufficient to extend over the object or personnel to be camouflaged and (2) a weight per unit surface area within the range of 1 to 16 ounces per square yard. The camouflage fabric comprises a knit yarn fabric formed of a multiplicity of knit stitches and a multiplicity of parallel longitudinally extending inserts held in the knit fabric by longitudinally extending stitch sections of yarn between the inserts and transversely extending stitch sections of yarn on opposite sides of the inserts spaced longitudinally therealong. The strips are held by the knit yarn fabric so that opposite surface areas thereof correspond with opposite surface areas of the camouflage fabric and so that each side edge of each strip is disposed in spaced parallel relation with an opposite side edge of an adjacent strip. The spacing between each pair of adjacent side edges is greater then the size of the longitudinally extending stitches disposed therein so as to provide openings which allow for the flow of air through the camouflage fabric from either surface area thereof. The width of the strips is related to the spacing between each pair of adjacent side edges and the size of the knit fabric by which the strips are held such that the opposite surface areas of the strips define the visually dominant opposite surface areas of the camouflage fabric. A common one of the opposite surface areas of the strips has a predetermined camouflage pattern or patterns having continuity both in the direction of the strips and in a direction perpendicular thereto except for the spaces between strips so that the predetermined camouflage pattern or patterns can be presented as the visually dominant surface area of the camouflage fabric.