DIY retro sporran project

[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