Edwardian Sporran - Help!

[OC Richard]

Here's what I did. I bought a lovely vintage cantle on Ebay, which came affixed to a modern horsehair sporran body. It's much later than your cantle, being probably from the first quarter of the 20th century.

Then later I bought a modern goathair sporran which likewise came up on Ebay. Though it had a hideous modern bronze cantle, it had just the body I needed: goathair with a huge gussetted opening body.

I switched the vintage cantle to the goathair body and Bob's your Uncle.

Here's the result. I love this sporran because it's completely different from anything anybody else is wearing and is extremely practical, being amazingly roomy. (The body, like those of 19th century sporrans, is somewhat wider and longer than modern sporrans.)



I didn't like the way the sporran loop was on the inside, so I had a local shoe repair guy sew straps on the back, which works great. You can see how the sporran opens wide with its side gussetts.






I bought both the vintage cantle and the modern goat sporran from "bugpiper" (Steve McVeigh) in Northern Ireland.

Here's another goat sporran he had up for sale a while back. Shift your lovely Victorian cantle onto a sporran like this and you're good to go.