Horse Hair

[JimB]

Thank you Julie!
This is just what I have been looking for.

How do you think this would look on a piper's sporran?
http://www.hideandfur.com/inventory/36250094.html

[Chas]

Jim, if you are after a horsehair sporran, why not just buy one.

Real horsehair

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ORIGINAL-HORSE...item2ea710f965 - £59.99 + shipping

or artificial

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LONG-ARTIFICIA...item2ea710f7e0 - £29.99 + shipping

If you buy just the horsehair, you still have to make the sporran to put it on. I have been searching the internet for months and I can't find a cantle for less than £29.99 and here is one with the rest of the sporran attached for free!

If nothing else, you will have a sporran that you can de-construct to find out how to do it before you waste a lot of horsehair.

Regards

Chas

[LadyGriffin]

Chas, if you read the description of the horse hair sporran it says:

Stock Code: SP250

Name: Long Artificial Hair Sporran


Then it describes the sporran as black cowhide leather and original horse hair?
Which is it? Artificial or Real?

I do not trust it.


Julie

[Donnie]

Try this place! I get almost all my supplies here.
http://www.zackwhite.com/home.php?cat=579
We want to see the finished sporran!

[MacLowlife]

Thanks LadyGriffin for explaining the latch-hooking part. Do you have an idea of what weight of hair you ended up using? ( Was it a pound, a half pound, or what?) Would you still use that approach? I had thought maybe some kind of clamp, or series of clamps, or staples or long stitches of thin wire. I also thought, if you have 28-30 inch hair, you might attach it in the middle and fold it over. Does anyone else have ideas about attaching the hair?

[LadyGriffin]

I think it was a pound, and I purchased the longest they had. I used about 8 hairs at a time, and went at it. I believe used a canvas mesh that they use for latch hooking or slightly smaller. I posted pictures on x-marks a few years ago. I think the squares were about 1/4 inch.
I know had some left over afterwards. I purchased the smallest weight in black for the tassels.

After that, I found a whole horse tail online, but I would never go that route again. It is MUCH easier to get it all cleaned, combed and the same length! Spend the extra $ and get it that way! Other than being a bit creepy having a horse tail hanging in my sewing room, The hairs are uneven, thicker and thinner and not consistent in color.

Julie

[Bugbear]

You know, I just remembered that a bunch of people over at one of the ceramic studios do a lot of horse hair glazing; burning horse hair into red hot ceramic sculptures.

I might ask them where they get the horse hair; though there is an abundance of horses out here.

[JimB]

I'm just one of those that likes to see if I can do things.
I really want to do my own horse hair sporran. I've made several daywear sporrans and one formal (even the famous white acrylabeast sporran which caused so much adventure and chaos as chronicled in the stories written here.).
I have been learning about pewter and will make my own cantle and I intend to latchhook the horsehair onto a plastic mesh screen which I will glue onto a leather pouch.
I'll be sure to post pics as it comes together.
Thanks all!!