Comments on: Sporran maker criticised for use of road kill

By: Eric Murray

Eric Murray — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:56:26 +0000

I think these people who complain need to get a better hobby or life, since the formerly alive creature don’t care and it better than letting it rot. I understand it from some former life guilt how bad the English treated animals, but they get a bit silly this days.

By: Marc van Koperen, Edinburgh

Marc van Koperen, Edinburgh — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:25:31 +0000

I have recently seen Kate’s work. All her sporrans are outsanding and made with total respect for both nature and the craft of sporran making. I am totally opposed to any commercial breeding of animals for fur and I support anyone who is against this but to criticise Kate and similar craftsmen for using road kill is totally out of order, over the top and too far fetched. Aestetics and death go very well together. The fact that someone does not like or appreciate the use of roadkill has nothing to do with not having respect for the animal. I would say that the use of roadkill for items like sporrans is the ultimate celebration of modern recycling and tradition. I would say to the critic go and pester the people in the cars who can’t keep to the speed limit in our forests and fields who do the actual killing. I also wonder if she has ever tried telling a native American Indians not to use any feathers or hides; she would be surprised how close those people are to nature.

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