Vintage Sporran making Video!

[Panache]

Attention would-be-sporran makers!

A friend shared this link with me from Scottish Screen Archive. It will take you to a silent 16 minute film from 1955 on how to make a sporran


http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=0958&fb_source=message

Enjoy!

Cheers

Jamie

[Panache]

Looking further at the website I can see how this might be of great interest to our members

For more information on the Scottish Screen Archive take a look here

http://ssa.nls.uk/index.cfm?sid=01

[creagdhubh]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing, Jamie.

[tulloch]

Very interesting! I will pass the word about this one.

[MacGumerait]

Panache , that's a pretty cool old video ! What got my attention more than anything else was some of the tools being used . Some of them I am familiar with , some not . Quite interesting . Thanks for sharing this !

[Tobus]

Very nice find! That was an excellent demonstration of all sorts of techniques and tools that leatherworkers typically use. I like that he showed the versatility of a good round knife, including skiving, trimming, and cutting. What he didn't show, though, was the constant sharpening of the round knife in order to make it cut through leather like butter. It takes quite a while to learn the art of properly sharpening a round knife! And it was also a good demonstration of the 2-needle stitching style which I prefer. He makes it look too easy, though.

It was also a good demonstration of a 4-part round braid as well as the 5-part flat braid. And I'm glad he showed how to make those little pineapple tassels. Very informative!

The one thing that struck me is how quickly he was moving. It seemed rather sloppy and haphazard, but the end result was a fine quality product, and that's all that matters. You can tell he's been doing it so long (in production-style environs) that he's got it down to a science. And he does it whilst wearing a suit and tie!

I'm going to have to watch this several times to truly appreciate everything that was being shown.