Veggie/vegan Kilt wearers out there?

[Paul Henry]

I have lots of vegetarian friends and none of them have a problem wearing wool -- in fact most I would say have a marked preference for natural fibers over man-made. So I'm just curious why a vegetarian would want to avoid wool cloth? After all, the sheep need shearing, it's part of good animal husbandry. It's actually quite distressing and unhealthy for them not to be sheared.

I'm not asking to be antagonistic, I'm just curious.

I don't eat meat at all, but I have no problem with wool, like Matt I don't want to be contentious, but products like wool are much more environmently sound, at least over petrol-chemical products like acrylic or ones which require a huge ammount of chemical processing like PV.

The shearing of sheep for wool is necessary and doesn't injure the animals.There are some companies who offer an organic or friendly approach to sheep rearing , perahps those are areas you could look at as well.

Having said that, if a client of mine wants a kilt made in any fabric I will do my best to assist , I often make kilts out of cotton or linen, and there subsistutes for leather straps , and I can forgo the use of beeswax as well.

[SlackerDrummer]

From another thread on vegan sporrans, which is probably the bigger issue for you.

A 2-second search on the googles found this http://www.vegansporrans.co.uk/ and this http://www.vegetariansporran.com/ among a million other hits

The website for the "Vegetarian Sporrans" sucks, but they have a broader range. IMO the "Vegan Sporrans" are just ugly.