Artificer would be the one to give guidance about sporranmaking.
Vintage horsehair sporrans come up on Ebay all the time fairly cheap.
Pipers and everybody else who wore a kilt used to wear long hair sporrans, throughout most of the 19th century, but by the 1920s most kiltwearers had switched to the then-new range of small pocketlike sporrans in leather and fur. Eventually long hair sporrans were being thought of as 'military' or for pipers.
About kilts, there can be no 'pattern' because each kilt is designed from scratch based on the measurements and tartan. Two kilts made to exactly the same size, but made of different tartans, would be made differently, if pleated to the sett.
Last edited by OC Richard; 5th June 14 at 06:52 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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