Macdonald Sporrans

We’ve added a new tankard to our extensive collection of nearly 400 tankards. It’s our first stainless steel tankard and is available in a 16oz capacity. 16oz is a little smaller than our standard tankard capacity of 20 ounces, or 1 pint. However, it’s stocky shape gives it a very attractive appearance, and it’s slightly smaller size just means it’ll easily fit a bottle of beer, but not quite a full pint of ale! You can get more information on tankard capacity here.

I’m confident that this will be one of our most popular tankards – it’s competitively priced, looks great and has optional engraving so that you can personalise your gift to give it that extra-special flavour.

Most of our tankards are hand made in the UK with high quality pewter. The craftsmanship that goes into their construction is to a very high standard and we hope to expand on this in the next few months with some photos of the manufacturing and engraving processes. It always amazes me to see how these products are made – particularly when they are still made virtually entirely by hand, right on our door step! There’s not much manufacturing that still takes place in the UK and we’re proud to still be here.

Most stainless steel products are made in Asia and then imported into the UK. Due to this, we are able to offer the 16oz stainless steel tankard at a great price of only £14.69! As with all our products, bulk discounts are available for large orders.

Stainless steel is a harder metal than pewter, so should keep it’s shape a bit better over time. Pewter is more malleable so can become misshapen or dented if not cared for properly. However, stainless steel is much more resistant to this kind of problem, and should last better if being thrown about a bit more. If you want more information on how to care for your pewter products check out our pewter care page.

We are delighted to unveil yet another new item for our website. The Contemporary Araca Tweed Jacket & Vest is an item we have been looking to stock for quite some while, and we believe it will offer our customers an even larger and varied selection of jackets and waistcoats.

The contemporary style of the jacket makes it great for any occasion. Its modern look makes it an elegant choice for a summer wedding; perfect for wearing with a ruched tie and semi dress sporran. However the look of the jacket is versatile enough to suit any formal occasion and can be worn with a black bow tie and full dress sporran.

The jacket is made from 100% pure 15oz new wool and comes with Staghorn style buttons; giving the overall look of the item a modern yet rustic feel. The look and style of the buttons make our Staghorn kilt pins and Sgian Dubh’s a great choice to create an outfit which fits together beautifully. The jacket comes with a nice fitting charcoal 5 button waistcoat that matches perfectly. Both the jacket and waistcoat are made in Europe from British cloth so the quality of the item is fantastically high and the cloth has been woven to a smooth, crisp tweed giving it a great feel and look. Other features include cloth epaulettes and decorated cuffs and pockets and at the amazingly low cost of £163.91 it offers a price that is hard to beat.

We are certain this jacket will become very popular with our customers, especially in the coming summer months where we are fast approaching wedding season. The charcoal colouring of the jacket make it perfect to suit any custom made tartan kilt or stock poly-viscose kilt. Look out in the near future for a fantastic range of outfits that incorporate the Contemporary Araca Tweed Jacket & Vest.

We have yet another new addition to the website in the form of our custom made tartan neck ties and bow ties. We have had quite a few customers requesting to have these items to match their custom kilts and trews but we have been unable to offer these items until now. We are proud to use our connections to two of Scotland’s top mills, Lochcarron of Scotland and The House of Edgar, to be able to offer these products to our customers.

Lochcarron of Scotland are one of the most diversified textile companies in the world. They are based in Selkirk in the heart of the Scottish Borders where the company caters for the fashion conscious whilst maintaining its vastly appealing Scottishness.

For many years now, The House of Edgar has been the worldwide market leader in Highlandwear combining a fully flexible service with value for money. More than 1000 Clan, District and Irish County tartans in a variety of weights and compositions are held in stock, together with a comprehensive range of Highlandwear products.

Our custom made pure wool tartan neck tie is available in any House of Edgar 13oz Old & Rare tartan or any Lochcarron 11oz Reiver tartan. This tie is perfect for formal occasions such as weddings, however it is also suitable for more informal occasions. This tie is a great way to liven up a plain white shirt with a colourful tartan and is the perfect accessory to your custom made kilt. As the item is custom made it takes 1-2 weeks to be produced but at £23.50 it offers fantastic value for money.

Our custom made pure wool tartan bow tie is available in any Lochcarron 11oz Reiver tartan. It comes in a pre-tied style and is suitable for all formal occasions and is priced at the very reasonable price of £23.38.

As these items are hand made by some of the most experienced kilt makers in the UK you can be assured that your tie will be made to the highest possible standard with some of the best pure wool in Scotland.

Another new addition to our website is our 5 Yard Wool Stock Kilt. We believe this will be a fantastic new option for our customer as it offers the quality of a pure wool kilt and the delivery speed of a stock item. The kilt is available in six tartans – Black Watch, Freedom, Hamilton Grey, Heritage Black, Heritage of Scotland and Royal Stewart.

The kilt is made in Scotland from 5 yards of 16oz pure wool tartan cloth and it is pleated to the sett. Pleating to the sett is the most common type of pleating which results in the kilt looking the same at the front and the back. A full sett of the tartan is folded into each pleat so that the tartan appears to be continuous across all the pleats.

It is made with a 100% cotton lining to make it more comfortable to wear. The kilt has 2 leather straps to fasten kilt – 1 on each side and these straps allow the kilt to be expanded by roughly 2″ above stated size. As it is a stock kilt it has a standard 24″ drop, but the kilt is made in such a way that the drop can be altered by any good tailor quite easily.

The kilt is priced at the fantastically low cost of £141 and is dispatched from stock, usually within 3-5 working days. When you compare this to our 5 Yard Custom Made Wool Kilt, which has an average price of £200 and a dispatch time of 4-6 weeks, the benefits of having such an option available are immediately apparent.

We are very excited to be able to provide yet more choice for our customers and we believe this is another step to providing a kilt for any price range. From our 8 Yard Poly-Viscose Stock Kilt at £41 to our 8 Yard Custom Made Kilt at an average of £350 we feel this is a perfect high quality option for those looking at a price range somewhere between these two.

We have introduced an number of new scarves to go with our already extensive clan tartan range. We have now added two new scarves category to cover Lambswool tartan scarves and Cashmere scarves. These scarves are perfect for the damp Spring weather we have been experiencing lately and in fact are a great year round fashion accessory. We believe that this new range will provide our customers with a great choice in price and styles and are very pleased to finally unveil these items.

Our lambswool scarves come in a variety of colours and patterns including tartans and checks.These scarves cover styles ranging from our Autumn Check scarf in baby blue, pink and yellow colours all the way to our Wallace tartan scarf in Dark red, black and yellow tartan.

Each scarf measures roughly 60″ by 12″ or 150cm by 30cm and is made from 100% pure lambswool. These scarves are available at an astonishingly low price of £7.36 so offer a great quality budget alternative to our other scarf ranges.

Our cashmere scarves offer a great high quality alternative and are also available in a wide range of solid colours, check patterns and tartans. These scarves provide a new style of clothing at Macdonald Sporrans as they are not exclusively made up of tartans. We have styles such as the Plain Baby Pink Cashmere Scarf or the Multicoloured Stripe Cashmere Scarf which we believe will be fantastic additions to the website.

Each scarf measures roughly 60″ by 12″ or 150cm by 30cm and is made from 100% pure cashmere. These scarves are available at a great value price of £24.56 so offer a fantastic quality alternative to our other scarf ranges.

All our scarves are perfect for a highly valued gift for someone close or even as a little treat to yourself. Check out our Tartan Scarves section now to see the amazing range of choice we now have .

We have been working very hard to extend our range of items across all parts of the website and are excited to announce that we have significantly increased the amount of ghillie brogues that we offer.

We now can supply 16 different types of brogues suitable for all your needs. This selection now includes a far greater variation in the style of shoe that we offer. From our Ghillie Boot to our Highlander Brogue you will find many styles to suit all casual or formal occasions.

We believe brogues such as our Comfort Ghillie Brogues will become very popular with our customers. This is an extremely comfortable shoe combining soft & smooth calf leather uppers with a super flexible sole unit. The shoes is constructed from high grade leather lining to avoid sock staining and is available in UK sizes 6-13 (including all half sizes).

We also now offer a higher quality alternative brogue in our Executive Grade Ghillie Brogues. This is a premium quality, fully-featured shoe made with smooth calf uppers for added luxury and unparalleled comfort. They have PORON shock absorber insoles for maximum comfort and kip lining as used by the worlds leading quality shoemaker. The shoes also come in dust bags in order to keep them in great condition.

We have been working hard to provide our customers with some alternative styles and we believe that our Buckle Kilt Brogues fit this description. This is a traditional evening wear buckle shoe and is available in matt and polished finish.

Another new style we have available is our Highlander Brogues. This is an authentic Jacobean casual slip on shoe with a pewter buckle. This style of shoe is said to have been worn by Bonnie Prince Charlie. The shoe has high grade leather lining to avoid sock staining and is kip leather lined in burgundy. It also has a tapered heel for a more comfortable fit.

We are now confident that whatever style of shoe you require for your kilt outfit; we can now provide it.

We are very happy to announce that we can now provide a stock Clan Crest engraving for any of the engraveable items across our websites.

A Scottish crest badge, commonly called a clan crest, is a heraldic badge which was worn to show one’s allegiance to an individual or one’s membership to a specific Scottish clan. Crest badges are commonly referred to as “clan crests”, and are normally worn by members of Scottish clans. You can see a sample of the Macdonald crest below:

Obviously, as there is a strong Highland connection with clan crests and kiltwear then it was a natural progression for us to supply this kind of service. We have been working closely with the various suppliers and engravers that we are partnered with and as a result you can now choose from a large selection of designs to further customise your hip flask or tankard.

We have a range of hip flasks and tankards that are perfect for this kind of customisation. Our plain hip flasks are tailor made for engraving choices; whether that be text engraving, logo engraving or obviously clan crest engravings. Our flasks and tankards are provided by some of the UK’s top pewter makers and they use top of the range engraving equipment to complete any engraving requests.

For the very low price of £5.64 you can have any of our available clan crest engraved onto any product and we are more than happy to provide a digital copy to you of how the image looks. Please see our Engraving Information section for further information and also to see an example of the MacDonald clan crest (obvious choice).

So if you would like to show your clan allegiance then what better way than to have your family crest added to any of our metal products. We can now supply over 140 Scottish based crests from Anderson to Young and all the way in between; so if your family has a crest then it’s a good bet we have it!

We’ve just launched some great new hip flask designs. Many of these fit into our new category of contemporary hip flasks.

We have some great Q-Bic designs which feature a sateen finish and square corners and come with a variety of enamel finish caps. We also have some special shaped flasks such as the grip shaped hip flask and the stirrup shaped hip flask which we’re sure will be popular.

We’ve also created a category for plain hip flasks which is full of flasks with no patterns so that you can have them engraved with logos or text, or if you just like a plain flask.

We’re pleased to present a jumbo sized addition to our range of hip flasks. The 26oz giant pewter hip flask is big enough for you and a few friends to share a drink!

This huge flask measures approximately 20cm high by 10cm wide and is roughly 2.5 cm deep. It is hand made by experienced pewter manufacturers and can be engraved with a personalised message or logo.

All that, and it comes in a silk lined presentation box as standard!

Due to high demand, we advertised our Standard Tartan Trews a few months ago, and we’re pleased to say that they are proving very popular despite not having a single image of our trews!

I’m pleased to say that we now have some quality images of our standard trews, and hope to have images of our fishtail back tartan trews and military style tartan trews in the near future.