You're Welcome. Finally, some of that useless military knowledge is helping someone other than me. . . . LOL. I did spent some time in the Army and got out back in '98. While I was in I was Infantry first and then reclassed to be a MP. While in Infantry I busted my butt for 6 weeks for a sniper designation and it carried over as a MP. Anyways. . . Still a whole bunch floating around upstairs that won't go away though. If these photos don't make any sense then let me know. I'll try to explain what they are as best as I can.
This is the Jute Twine that I was talking about. These are small spools that a lot of people use for tying packages or some use it in their gardens. One spool should be enough for what you need it for.
Jute is a three strand twisted rope so-to-speak. This is what it looks like before and then after you unravel it.
What you'd do is cut the lengths that you want and then unravel it to have three smaller strands. If you're going to dye it to say OD or dark brown or something, I'd just pull out a lot of it that you think you want that color and then dye the whole thing at once. Then, you can cut any length you want off of it and unravel it. Here's what some of it that I dyed OD green looks like. I don't think the color turned out right in the photo though.
This is the fishing net that I was referring to. This one is actually has about 1/2" squares I think. There's a pic with a ruler for reference.
The way you attach everything is to just take your strand of jute, double it over and then make a hitch knot on the netting with it. I don't know if these pics will help you out with what I just said, but I did my best. LOL
Here's an example of a sniper veil that I made a long time ago. It is made with 2 inch netting, because the holes had to be big enough for a M24 barrel and a scopes objective lens to fit through. The netting is sewn to a boonie hat and the camo is a combo of Jute, Burlap and other twines.
It's designed to be worn the right way a hat should be with the long veil on your back while stalking and then you can turn it around backwards while prone to cover your neck, face and rifle altogether.
A neck veil would be based on the same thing as this. It just wouldn't need as much Jute on it being a neck veil. You just cut out a strip of netting about the length and width of a scarf and put shorter pieces of Jute on it to create the effect that you want. Just remember. . . Most snipers will use lighter colors or dead vegetation colors to make things like this, because it is a lot easier to make lighter colored things darker than vice versa. Oh, and don't try to put Jute in every hole all the way across. It's already a time consuming process to make things like these and that would take you forever . . . .
Man, I hope this can help you on your way to getting what you want out of the veil that you want to make. Like I said, if this doesn't make sense, let me know. I'll be more than willing to do something else to help you out if need be.