Make A Custom Shemagh

Soldiers use shemaghs to safeguard their faces from sandstorms.

Shemaghs could be a soldier's, modern military reenactor's, paintball player's or air-soft enthusiast's closest friend. Shemaghs are cotton squares of fabric that U.S. and British soldiers positioned in desert conditions use to help keep sand and mud from their mouths and faces in addition to clean up sweat. Shemaghs are available in military-appropriate colors like olive, khaki, sand and camouflage. These were modified in the traditional black-and-whitened check-patterned jewelry known as kaffiyeh that Arab males put on. Kaffiyehs will also be fashionable among many males and ladies in the western world. You are able to personalize your shemagh for any unique check out game battlefields or perhaps to put on in the pub. Performs this Spark a concept?

Instructions

1. Select a cotton fabric having a pattern you want. Or select a whitened cotton should you rather fresh paint by yourself design. Choose a soft cotton fabric as shemaghs are wrapped around the face.

2. Choose how large you would like your shemagh to become. Consider 42 inches by 42 inches for any more compact shemagh and 47 inches by 47 inches for any bigger shemagh. Decide if you would like your shemagh to become plain or if you'd like fringe onto it. Add one or two inches to every edge for fringe. For instance, a bigger shemagh with 2 " of fringe would measure 51 inches by 51 inches.

3. Lay your fabric on the large clean table. Measure how big your shemagh having a yardstick. Mark the outdoors square having a pencil, pen or tailor's chalk. Eliminate the square. If you would like fringe, appraise the line in which the fringe begins (the initial shemagh square size) and mark with tailor's chalk or only really small and lightweight lines having a pencil or pen.

4. Fresh paint the designs around the fabric using the paintbrush and fabric fresh paint for those who have selected to do this. Let dry completely.

5. Cut a number of small, uniform lines in the fringe of the fabric towards the original shemagh square. If you wish to measure each line for greater precision and mark all of them with a pencil, you are able to.