I spoke about this with a local kiltmaker last weekend. She basically said that with the textiles that are so readily availible and the labor that is inevitably cheap, it makes it very easy to try to hop onto a growing market. I would shy away from any of these myself, they don't exactly look like they know exactly what they were doing. They had the sporrans lying on top of the pleats in the pictures I saw!

I don't have an overly strong background on Southern Asian History, but I'm sure Totdd will have something to offer.

George