Quality Sporrans for less money

**OC Richard** · 13th August 25, 01:27 AM

One sees the same or similar stamps used over and over by multiple makers, but here's something different, the flap tooled with a Celtic swirl design.

Brass hardware.

By Piper Leathercraft, Scotland. In the USA, $60

https://www.ebay.com/itm/18600074006...3ABFBM5L24qJRm

**TheDruidOfCelina** · 14th August 25, 07:56 PM

This is exactly the type of thread I joined the forum to find. I'm just starting to rebuild my kilt wardrobe and I don't have nearly the money I had when I first got into kilts. Thank you for this.

**OC Richard** · 16th August 25, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by TheDruidOfCelina

This is exactly the type of thread I joined the forum to find. I'm just starting to rebuild my kilt wardrobe and I don't have nearly the money I had when I first got into kilts. Thank you for this.

Thank you so much!!

I grew up not having any money in a place where people had a "make do" attitude.

You can take the boy out of the hills but you can't take the hills out of the boy, they say, and I've always looked for 1) making something myself or 2) finding things for less money on the used market.

My first two kilts were made by my grandmother. My first tweed Argyll jacket and Full Dress doublet were made by myself.

Most of my sporrans were made by myself. Others were picked up used. I do have one I bought new and paid full price for.

Ditto kilt jackets. I have three Argyll jackets, one was picked up for a song on Ebay, one was on the odds & sods rack at a Kilmarnock hire shop, one I paid full price for.

There's just something in my DNA, literally, that makes me avoid paying full price for things, but I will do when needs must.

Myself in 1976 or 1977. I made the doublet, plaid, and bag-cover. My grandmother made the kilt. The pipes, sporran, hose-tops, and dirk were picked up secondhand for little money.

I did push the boat out for the feather bonnet! I had just won a decent cash prize in an art contest which saved me the trouble of making a feather bonnet, which I was starting the process to do.

**OC Richard** · 19th August 25, 01:00 AM

WE Scott black "day" sporran with white pony/bovine front, $10.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/14678058437...102140.m167418

**OC Richard** · 19th August 25, 02:40 PM

Above our ordinary brief, but it's seal and in the USA.

WE Scott brown "day" sporran with seal front $90

https://www.ebay.com/itm/11674044247...102140.m167418

**OC Richard** · 19th August 25, 02:45 PM

Best for UK people, a WE Scott seal "evening" sporran £50.

Comes with a Pakistani "Hertiage of Scotland" sporran, for better or for worse.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/19763092234...Bk9SR9bHwMSYZg

**California Highlander** · 19th August 25, 07:08 PM

That is a beauty!!

$70 + $10 shipping...do I really need another sporran??

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Above our ordinary brief, but it's seal and in the USA.

WE Scott brown "day" sporran with seal front $90

https://www.ebay.com/itm/11674044247...102140.m167418

**geomick** · 19th August 25, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by California Highlander

That is a beauty!!

$70 + $10 shipping...do I really need another sporran??

Yes, you do.

(buy it so I don't have to)

**OC Richard** · 19th August 25, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by California Highlander

That is a beauty!!

$70 + $10 shipping...do I really need another sporran??

That all depends on a couple things

1) are you interested in following the norms of Highland Dress, including the different modes?

2) if so, what modes of Highland Dress do you want to put together outfits for?

3) do you reject the Allen Brothers, and all of their evil works, and all of their empty promises? (Just kidding!)

For plenty of people the answers to #1 and #2 are "no" and "none".

But if the answers are "yes" and "two" then two sporrans would be a minimum in Traditional Highland Dress.