Hair Sporrans

**Bugbear** · 27th March 10, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by Sporrans maker

love you

Strange comment...

Anyway, I seem to remember a discussion a while back about modern hair sporrans not usually being long enough; perhaps even that the sporran hair reach passed the bottom of the kilt on some older style hair sporrans.

Just for the record, I always wore the bottom of my kilt right above the top of my knee, and the hose about three or four fingers below my knee.

**Mael Coluim** · 28th March 10, 03:33 AM

This thread pushed me over the edge to order a white goat hair 'John Brown' sporran from Josh at Skye Highlander Outfitters.

Below is the one Josh made for Longhuntr in a black hair. The jonesing has begun!

**Downunder Kilt** · 29th March 10, 03:03 AM

Originally Posted by Mael Coluim

This thread pushed me over the edge to order a white goat hair 'John Brown' sporran from Josh at Skye Highlander Outfitters.

Below is the one Josh made for Longhuntr in a black hair. The jonesing has begun!

I'm all with you. I ordered on on 24 March and I am already itching for the postie to arrive with it

**OC Richard** · 30th March 10, 04:57 AM

I love those hair ones!

I used to have one just like this, an old c1900 one, that I bought at a gun show in the 70's:

I added a couple photos to my first post above, old images showing long hair sporrans with day dress:

Recently I've been wearing a vintage horsehair sporran with my Argyll jacket, but the problem is that it isn't any good for holding anything much!

So yesterday I got on Ebay a long goat hair sporran, modern made, that the whole body is one large pocket.

I intend on replacing the modern cantle with my wonderful Celtic Dragon vintage cantle. I'll post photos when I get that done.

**BoldHighlander** · 30th March 10, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

I love those hair ones!

So do I!

Originally Posted by OC Richard

I added a couple photos to my first post above, old images showing long hair sporrans with day dress:

Great photos as always Richard.
I thought I might add a few of my own

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Recently I've been wearing a vintage horsehair sporran with my Argyll jacket, but the problem is that it isn't any good for holding anything much!

So yesterday I got on Ebay a long goat hair sporran, modern made, that the whole body is one large pocket.

I intend on replacing the modern cantle with my wonderful Celtic Dragon vintage cantle. I'll post photos when I get that done.

Can't wait to see it!

**beerbecue** · 30th March 10, 01:50 PM

I am glad they are making a comeback... very smart looking to me...

**guitarmatt** · 30th March 10, 02:01 PM

Speaking of John Brown, I caught the film Mrs. Brown on the BBC the other night, in which Billy Connolly wears a great horsehair sporran: http://atgbcentral.com/mbhorse.html

**creagdhubh** · 30th March 10, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by beerbecue

I am glad they are making a comeback... very smart looking to me...

They are VERY smart-only with evening wear though-in my opinion. I am not so sure I'd wear one with day wear-even if it had the appropriate, plain cantle, and perhaps had a body made of grey or brown hair, with or without black or white plain coned tassles. Not sure on that one yet, anything's possible though.