Leather Sporran Colors

[Jock Scot]

The simple answer would be that in the old days sporran leather wasn't coloured at all- it was the colour the leather naturally was.

Sporrans made of cowhide were brown, of pigskin a sort of ginger, deerskin buff, and so forth.

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Black leather sporrans don't appear until around 1980, .............

Errr, not quite. To my certain knowledge the occasional black sporran, worn with day wear, was seen in the 1940's. Not common place, I grant you, but most certainly they were about.