The Woollen Mill 179 High Street

[Miller6582]

Hear, hear! I've made my opinions known already, that the UK should restrict/prohibit imports of specified "cultural products".

At the very least UK makers ought to be proactive and stamp their things. So many UK-made kilts, jackets, sporrans, etc have no markings stating such.

In the USA it's different: complex laws state that all clothing bear a label stating both the fibre content and the country of origin. All leather items must bear a label stating the sort of leather and country of origin.

In any case I worked fulltime in a Highland Outfitter here in the USA through the 1980s. We carried W E Scott sporrans and as I recall they had the gold oval Made In Scotland Real Leather stamp.



Thanks! The urge is strong to polish it. But yes it looks great as is.

In my years of receiving hundreds of W E Scott sporrans and putting them up for display and selling them I can't recall seeing an Evening sporran with brass cantle. Did you have any pass through your shop?

None in the shop but I have seen a few in other shops fairly recently. One in the 8 yard shop by Haymarket station (Fox Fur) and one version online from Artisans of Scotland (White Mink) who have a 'design your own' where you select all the parts for your own sporran which includes a brass cantle option. The W.E Scott trade website (Grey Bovine) also shows a version of their brass cantle.