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25th February 14, 06:03 PM
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Careful, Chaps, You lot are going to make me blush! 
Manxstralian- if you need further advice, drop me an email - artificer@customsporrans.net
I'll try to answer as quickly as possible, but sometimes it takes me a day or two. It's not terribly difficult for me to spend 1/2 of a 'normal' work day on communications.
A few notes: The biggest thing to pay attention to with horse hair is the stitching. If you're doing it by hand I'd recommend no fewer than 2 rows of stitches (ideally each stitch would be no greater than 5mm / 3/8")
The problem being, once hair starts to slip free there is more room under each stitch for MORE hair to slide free as well.
When I make a horse hair sporran I triple stitch the hair, additionally I double glue and lap it under another layer of leather.
This is a piece from a few years ago-

There have been any number of techniques I've seen employed.
The earliest was a single layer of horse hair OVER goathair,
Later you see multiple layers of hair with panels of shorn goat or similar in between to 'fill' the body out a bit.
Most new piper's sporrans have 4-5 layers of hair stitched in with no fill or lapping.
I haven't handled a new RRS hair sporran personally, so can't speak to that.
ith:
BTW: beware a bit- horse hair is VERY coarse, and you CAN get 'slivers' from it where the hair pokes and works it's way under your skin.
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