Sporran Storage

[artificer]

What they said.

Plastic and leather don't mix well. Cloth keeps things happy.

[Nighthawk]

What they said.

Plastic and leather don't mix well. Cloth keeps things happy.

Yes!! Plastic+leather=bad things!!

[artificer]

Yes!! Plastic+leather=bad things!!

mildew, for a start

[auld argonian]

While what passes for my formal sporran (a bargain bunny sporran) isn't anywhere near as interesting,...

I have it in a shoe box and it's full of those cedar balls that they sell to deter moths and other nasty insects...figure that's pretty safe...

So stride into your local dry goods store and walk right up to the clerk and ask, "Do you have cedar balls?"

Best

AA

[Nighthawk]

While what passes for my formal sporran (a bargain bunny sporran) isn't anywhere near as interesting,...

I have it in a shoe box and it's full of those cedar balls that they sell to deter moths and other nasty insects...figure that's pretty safe...

So stride into your local dry goods store and walk right up to the clerk and ask, "Do you have cedar balls?"

Best

AA

That's pretty funny! What I do to store my sporran is very simple- I have a pair of Stillwater Kilts sporran hangers. I hang it in my closet, as if it were just another shirt.

[BobsYourUncle]

That's pretty funny! What I do to store my sporran is very simple- I have a pair of Stillwater Kilts sporran hangers. I hang it in my closet, as if it were just another shirt.

I'd be careful about that one. If you hang your sporran for storage, you run the risk that you will distort the leather straps through which your strap or ring keeper goes, and that then when you actually wear your sporran, it will jut out at an angle instead of laying straight and close against your kilt apron. If you are going to hang it, don't hang it by the belt strap or keeper, have it hung by some other part of the sporran.

[Nighthawk]

I'd be careful about that one. If you hang your sporran for storage, you run the risk that you will distort the leather straps through which your strap or ring keeper goes, and that then when you actually wear your sporran, it will jut out at an angle instead of laying straight and close against your kilt apron. If you are going to hang it, don't hang it by the belt strap or keeper, have it hung by some other part of the sporran.

That's a possibility, but my dress sporran is light enough, and the leather stiff enough, that after storing it like I do for 3 years, it still looks almost new. My day sporran, on the other hand, is starting to show a lot of wear on the ring keeper. I may need to replace that in the near future, so I know exactly what it is you're talking about. I will deffinately have to keep an eye on that.