DIY retro sporran project

[OC Richard]

The thing is done!

Here it is, flanked by my Margaret Morrison sporrans:



For years I wore that cantle on a goat-hair body.

Here it is, the goat-hair body and the new seal body. It's easy to shift the cantle between them.



A final collage showing the original photo mockup, various stages of work, and the final thing:

[YOJiMBO20]

Looks fantastic! Well done, Richard!

[piperalpha]

The thing is done!

Here it is, flanked by my Margaret Morrison sporrans:



For years I wore that cantle on a goat-hair body.

Here it is, the goat-hair body and the new seal body. It's easy to shift the cantle between them.



A final collage showing the original photo mockup, various stages of work, and the final thing:

Now that’s a good looking sporran. Top Drawer

[OC Richard]

Thanks!

I finally got a chance to wear it. I really like how it looks with an outfit.

The colour of the tassels matches the colour of the cords better when worn than it looked when I was assembling things.

The scrap of leather I cut the tassels from was lighter and more yellow than the cords.

I had two choices, either paint the cords to match the tassels, or paint the tassels to match the cords. I chose the latter as it seemed to yield better results when I did tests of both approaches.

[PiperPadre]

[QUOTE=OC Richard;1402818]Thanks!

I finally got a chance to wear it. I really like how it looks with an outfit.

The colour of the tassels matches the colour of the cords better when worn than it looked when I was assembling things.

The scrap of leather I cut the tassels from was lighter and more yellow than the cords.

I had two choices, either paint the cords to match the tassels, or paint the tassels to match the cords. I chose the latter as it seemed to yield better results when I did tests of both approaches.

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Well done, Richard. A stunner. And you’re right, seen in the ensemble what already a beautiful sporran now looks even better.

[OC Richard]

Thanks!

Here's that dragon-knotwork cantle with the goat-hair body I've been wearing it on for around a decade, and the outfit that it's appropriate for, and that cantle's seal-skin body with buff leather tassels, which opens up pretty much any outfit.



What I don't like about that seal-skin body is that's small and cramped.

I've got spoiled over the years by the amazing capaciousness of the goat-hair body.

Thing is, I do have a sporran body made just like that, but horsehair. (It's a 1980s Army sporran.) My plan all along has been to remove the horsehair and put a badger skin on. The tassel arrangement will be the same, in fact I'll probably just lift the tassels off the seal-skin sporran, which after all was intended merely as a dry-run or mockup.

Here's the goathair sporran easily holding a mobile phone, wallet, keys, and 19.2 ounce can of IPA.

The sporran can be closed normally with two 12 ounce cans inside, and I have done, at certain Highland Games