Recently I've been brushing up on my Leather working skills. Haven't done much for the last 20 years, but I still have most of the tools.

I'm getting ready to try making a sporran. I'm thinking of designs to tool onto the flap that comes over the front. One idea is for a Welsh Dragon.

I got a picture from the Welsh Flag and started working on a scrap of leather.

Here is how it came out, along with another piece I did earlier of the Celtic Croft's symbolic knot. (I'm sorry but I haven't figured out how to put a photo into a message here yet. It's at the link below in the folder "Leather")

These are just practice, but I'm about ready to start on the sporran, and then a matching kilt belt.

Any tips or comments from other leather carvers would be welcome.

Thanks,
Tom