The Woodland Ghillie Suit is the most popular color ghillie suit in the United States.  Blended with predominately green and brown colors, it is best suited for the woodland areas throughout the country.  The basic woodland ghillie suit is made on a standard military woodland camo pattern bdu.  Woodland ghillie suit colors consist of shades of green and brown.  The woodland suit is probably approximately 70% green shades and 30% brown.  This would be a good base point to start your color selection.

If you are in an area with more foliage and heavy leafy bushes, you can taper down your browns to 5-10%.  If you area is more wooded and heavily branched, you can increase the brown up to even 50%.   Getting a basic woodland suit and a few pounds of extra thread in various colors will allow you to modify your ghillie suit as seasons change.   It is difficult to get a ghillie suit color that will suit your needs in all terrain, but if you had to pick a base suit to modify for each season (unless you live in a southern desert state like Arizona), the woodland ghillie suit would be the best choice.

If you are in a darker wooded area where not much sun gets through the trees, add some black and grays to the suit when using the ghillie suit in darker shaded forests or in areas where the soil is darker.  This color is sometimes referred to as the bushrag mossy ghillie suit color.

Have some lighter tan and white thread or jute ready when fall rolls around.  In areas where the tree bark is white or in the winter when tall grass has died and become lighter, you can lighten up your woodland ghillie suit.  This color is also referred to as mossy color by a different manufacturer.  Yes, it’s confusing so you must know which brand suit you are getting or the colors may be different.

Modifying a ready made ghillie suit is pretty easy.  If your woodland ghillie suit is made with netting attached to it, it will be easier to customize with various colors.  The netting also makes it easy to add the native vegetation while in the field.You can also find directions on how to make a woodland ghillie suit online on youtube or various other sites.

Of course, you can always start from scratch and make your own ghillie suit by purchasing a ghillie kit.  This way you can choose the exact colors that you want on your ghillie suit.  The kits on sale today are very good and cost just slightly more than if you were to purchase the materials separately in a store.  The kits also save you the time of dying and cutting the jute.