My friend OC Richard, you have hit a nerve. I don't mean this in a confrontational way, and I don't mean to steal a thread, but, that is not a tooled pattern on that sporran. That is embossed, or pressed into the leather, with a machine. Tooling is much more beautiful (and tedious work) hand cut and hand worked. Embossing envolves putting the piece of leather in a machine and pressing a button. It takes about 30 seconds to put that pattern on the leather. That same pattern hand tooled would take about an hour or so to do correctly. Sorry if I have stepped on any toes, this is just a pet pieve of mine!