In 1944, telo mimetico was adopted by the Germans and distributed to Waffen-SS units operating in Italy and Normandy during the spring and summer of 1944. The pattern was continued into the 1990s, when it was replaced by a pattern based on US Woodland. The pattern varied with time, the colours becoming brighter while the print became less crisp. It was scaled down and compressed slightly lengthwise, but otherwise kept the shapes and colours of the first production. At some point before the outbreak of the Second World War, the pattern was changed, possibly to accommodate printing with smaller rolls. From 1942, the printed fabric was also used for smocks for the Italian paratroopers. Originally only printed on shelter halves, the pattern was not intended to be worn by soldiers though the shelter halves could be used as rain-ponchoes. Being first issued in 1929 and only fully discontinued in the early 1990s, it has the distinction of being the first printed camouflage pattern for general issue, and the camouflage pattern in longest continuous use in the world. M1929 Telo mimetico ( Italian: camouflage cloth) was a military camouflage pattern used by the Italian Army for shelter-halves ( telo tenda) and later for uniforms for much of the 20th century. The top image is the pattern made in 1940 and the bottom image is the pattern made in 1960.

Modern italian tank camouflages