First Selfmade Dress Sporran

[TheSp8]

Nicely done sir. Wear it proudly.

YMOS,
Tony

[A Hay]

Yours looks terrific!

Thanks for the very detailed pictures Gairloch. I really need a dress sporran but I have not wanted to pay the cost.
I've made a few day sporrans so I think I can handle this project.

I need to send an email off to Clanart and order a cantle!

Also, Hello from the other side of Germany, not far from Bayreuth, very near Weiden.

Tom

[gairloch]

That is a nice cantle! What is the source???

Dirk - The sporran looks very nice and usable, and I also have some goof fur that I want to make into a high class dress sporran.

I want to make mine a bit bigger than the norm, and I really don't like the normal way that dress sporrans close.

Give us some detailed "lessons learned" please. What all will you do differently next time?

Any good sources for cantles also.

Thanks

Hi,
as I wrote I whould do my next sporran without the stiff Macrolon between the leather and the fur.
Also I whould insert a kind of folded soft leather between the seam of the back piece and the side gusset, so that the rear seam is totaly covered with the black leather strip.
The lock with a strip of leather and a press button is fine.
Maybe I don't make a braided edge on the top of the back piece next time. Instead of that I whould maybe prefer a small strip of soft leather, which I whould sew all around the edge.
Next time I will try to make the inner lining out of black filt.
The cantle and the balls are from Clanart.Com. They have fantastic stuff and the people are very nice.

TC

Dirk