The Shemagh/Kufiya

[The Guide]

Can you share where you get them?

I bought them several years ago. I think that they were on Dave Canterbury's Self Reliance Outfitter store.

Jay

 

[JohnJohnson]

If you live in South Dakota then the pattern doesn't matter. People need to stop being 9/11 brained.

 

[2Stamp]

Can you share where you get them?

I got some blaze orange ones that have survival type info on them as the pattern. Gave them to everyone that I care about who hunt with me. Lightweight life saver when the weather makes things uncomfortable when out in the field.

He still has them.

Shemagh | Tactical Head Wrap for Sun and Sand

Shemaghs are designed to protect the head & neck from sun & sand. These head wraps were worn by military personnel.

www.selfrelianceoutfitters.com

 

[Bluumoon]

He still has them.

Shemagh | Tactical Head Wrap for Sun and Sand

Shemaghs are designed to protect the head & neck from sun & sand. These head wraps were worn by military personnel.

www.selfrelianceoutfitters.com

Looks like the cheap amazon ones. The higher quality ones are much nicer and will lead to actually using it.

 

[dwils233]

The Hirbawi ones (west bank manufacturer) is a pretty unique fabric- it's closer to gauze than a thin t-shirt material. I think it'd be hard to find from a run of the mill fabric supplier.

Whatever my politics aside, it's also a hell of thing to buy a product that's been manufacturer by the same families by hand for generations- especially considering how cheap that is compared to so much other "artisan" products

 

[Bluumoon]

The Hirbawi. Green dye made it teal, re dyed w brown and ended up w agnostic grey.

 

[RockAndSage]

If you live in South Dakota then the pattern doesn't matter. People need to stop being 9/11 brained.

Right...and walking around wearing a rainbow pride shirt doesn't mean anything if you're alone in South Dakota either, yeah? Or...you know, a feathered up war bonnet, down at the local bar just off the rez.

Regardless of the flag of tribal affiliation, it will always do at least 1 of 2 things: it tells the world which tribe you affiliate with, or which tribe has claimed you.

That's a human reality you can't escape - regardless of the inherent utility of a big cloth wrap around your neck or head.

I brought the point up early on simply because a lot of people honestly don't know that keffiyehs, shemaghs, arafatkas, or anything similar are literally a tribal flag and a tribal claim. In some places it is literally like wearing gang graffiti around your neck. It's no different than Scottish kilts or flag shirts or unit patches. And people should only wear whatever they want with that reality fully in mind. Because what you think is absolutely irrelevant to what others perceive. There are even some professional vet bros who will object to people wearing "tactical shemaghs" if they didn't "serve in the sandbox" personally. To antifa, wearing the OD green or tan tactical shemagh is a flag of conservative affiliation - because those variants are generally only worn by 2A tribes.

These are human realities. Just be aware of them, when wearing anything. That's all.

 

[SW hunter]

Just remember that you're wearing a flag of tribal affiliation, and that each of those means different things to different people.

Nobody should give that even a tiny piece of consideration. Not in this country

 

[RockAndSage]

Nobody should give that even a tiny piece of consideration. Not in this country

It's a genetically wired human reality.

Look at the shirt, shoes, pants, and watch you're wearing right now - each of those is a minor or major flag of tribal affiliation. Combined, they are a neon display of your personal tribal affiliations.

You literally cannot walk down the street without perceiving which social "tribe" someone's claiming affiliation with.

And you cannot walk down the street without displaying it yourself.

It's just so deeply wired into the background of human psychology that we don't realize we're doing it. But at a glance, you know.

Always separate "should", from "what is".

 

[Bluumoon]

Hirbawi: The Last Kufiya Factory in Palestine

For those who are yet unfamiliar, the Hirbawi Factory is a factory that produces Kufiya or Keffiyeh, which are the quintessential patterned scarves they wear in the Middle East. Once, the thriving production of kufiyas in the region is almost non-existent due to heavily import-dependent oil...

hirbawiusa.com

Interesting short read.