Quote Originally Posted by SF Jeff View Post
Those are some serious sporrans. The hose on the gentleman second from left are interesting. The pattern looks like it could be a stag head and antlers. Or maybe just a laurel crest.
The hose feature a stag's head, as you have rightly noticed.

The lattice pattern of the hose is a version of the Gairloch that usually features two colours that are marled where the stag's head is placed, but additing the stag's head adds all kinds of conplications for the knitter.

The Gairloch pattern is complex enough, with its stitch numbers being recalulated according to shoe-size, and leg legnth and width, in order to keep where the pattern meets at the back both regular and even. Adding the stag's head might be done best as a secondary process in the form of a duplicate stitch, but there would be several hours' work in that alone.

Consiquently, no-one is willing to pay a commercial labour rate for approximately 40 to 50 hours' knitting work for a pair of hand-knit kilt hose of this style, and so they are nonviable.

But they're nice to see, just the same.