Genuine Goat Hair Query

[creagdhubh]

Greetings,

I am curious if the rabble (Artificer maybe?) knows where one could purchase genuine goat hair in both black and white? I am in the early stages of having a bespoke evening sporran made and am rather keen on having the body and tassels of the sporran made of real goat hair - preferably stretched to around 17-18 inches in overall length (this, the sporran maker can do if needed). You tend to see a lot of goat hair sporrans on today's market that are entirely too short in their overall hair-length, but that's purely my opinion. Thanks!

Kind regards,

[davidlpope]

Kyle,

Are you looking for smooth, silky goat hair or curly Angora goat hair?

David

[unixken]

I would suggest contacting any goat farms in the southern Ohio, northern Kentucky area. For example:

http://getyourgoats.com/ohio.htm (Google "goat farms ohio")

[creagdhubh]

I would suggest contacting any goat farms in the southern Ohio, northern Kentucky area. For example:

http://getyourgoats.com/ohio.htm (Google "goat farms ohio")

Cheers, Ken!

[creagdhubh]

Kyle,

Are you looking for smooth, silky goat hair or curly Angora goat hair?

David

Smooth and silky, David. A bit reminiscent of the Victorian-era sporrans.

[artificer]

Hey Kyle,

I think the longest goat hair that I've ever seen is around 7-8".

I don't honestly know how they can 'stretch' the hair, it's very fine.

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[ThistleDown]

Kyle, I had a long goat hair sporran until the late fifties when it did a walk-about. I'll see if I can find a pre-digital pic of it. It didn't have a silver badge on board and the cantle was fairly plain sterling, with a few dimples but as I recall this is not unlike the one I had at least for length and the two plain bells.



Mine was from a Landrace raised in Wexford in the 20s. I suspect this sort of thing is very dear these days, but I'm sure a diligent search will come up with a tanned hair-on hide. I know there is a long hair breed native to Sweden you might source and, I guess, there must still be some in Ireland.

One complaint I think I might have had about it was that I couldn't keep my fingers out of the silkiness

...but I have the same problem with the beaver Scott made me, too

[Downunder Kilt]

Thanks Rex, I now have ham sandwich pieces all over my monitor