Well as luck would have it, my sister brought over her childhood rabbit fur coat for any one of my two youngest daughters to wear. Neither of them wanted to wear it...lol. It's old but in nice shape...however real fur is not their thing...so I was thinking - rather than throw it out I'd cut off an arm and see how a sporran might look.
Here's the "before":
Outside:
Inside:
Almost done:
inside "hanger" reinforcement piece:
Inside shot:
I removed the gold liner and that revealed that the skins were sewn to a canvas backing/base cloth.
This is the shoulder of the coat arm and you can see that I simply tucked under the 'outer/top' part of the shoulder of the sleeve to make the bottom.
I made two flap covers of the same leather - about 12oz each and stitched them together around a short length of fur. These are sealed inside with ModPodge to make it stiff and glued together in the center of the flap.
My entire hand fits inside the pouch, to just above my wrist. With my hand all the way open, I can barely touch the left and right sides. It's about 8" wide at the top and almost 9" tall.
As you can see, I'm not quite done trimming the edge of it (the flap) and I will look around Celtic Fest this weekend for a nice god Triquetra or Celtic Cross jewelry piece to mount directly in the center. I may burnish the edges instead of wrapping them with other leather and resewing...or I may use matching waxed sinew to cross-whip stitch the edge...not sure what I want to do yet.
Any thoughts?
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