I too got tired of my sporrans and decided to make my own after reverse engineering an old sporran. I got the leather from Tandy Leather company but I suppose any supplier of leather would do and I order a bear paw and attached forearm skin from the Moscow Hide and Fur Company in Idaho and went to work. The most difficult part was the sewing but I found that if, after I had determined exactly where the stiching was to go I nailed the piece down to the wooden workbench and with a small nail I made the holes in both pieces of leather and later stiched it together. Now that takes a while but it sure beats paying $1400.00 for a leather stiching machine. Other than that it was contact cement and elbow grease and I have a fine sporran from a black bear and it is just at home in a formal setting as at the games. Hope this helps someone.