A different kind of hair sporran?

[tyger]

Our clan tent at Stone Mt. was next to the Highland Cows pen, and I got to thinking - why do we never (or rarely, if ever) see a sporran that features the hide of this long-haired Scottish icon?

It is my understanding that the hair from these cows has never found a good use. That is a little unusal, given that so many animal hair-on skins are used so many ways. One would think that if these cows' hairs were useful, then somebody over the centuries would have found good use for it. Some hairs are exceedingly brittle.