W
e’ve seen PenCott camo
patterns in these pages before, and this month Lawrence Holsworth tells us
about the British company
behind them
“The PenCott pattern
went through several hundred iterations, trialling more
than two dozen samples in
natural environments”
Hyde Definition was founded in 2008 by Dominic
Hyde. Today it is the only British company operating internationally designing camouflage patterns.
Besides the successful PenCott family
of patterns, Dominic has designed
over 2,000 camouflage patterns for
clothing and gear, vehicles, aircraft,
watercraft, buildings and structures.
The PenCott family includes GreenZone for verdant terrain, Badlands for semi-arid terrain, Sandstorm for arid terrain, and Snowdrift for snowy winter landscapes. A pattern
for operations in low-light urban terrain called Metropolis
is also in the pipeline.
PenCott patterns are now in use with
a growing number of police tactical
teams, military special operations
forces and civilian enthusiasts.
The original PenCott pattern for verdant terrain, GreenZone, was first trial-launched on a very limited scale in the
UK in late 2009. But it wasn’t until summer 2010 that the
company found Duro Industries, a fabric printer that could
help it take the pattern to full-scale production across a
wide range of clothing and gear fabrics. All of the PenCott
patterns are printed at Duro’s facilities in Fall River, Massachusetts.