Hello all! I'm an amateur leatherworker with a few projects under my belt, but not a great amount of experience. I'm in the process of making a Highland Daywear Sporran, to be worn with a tartan wool kilt. I'm planning on dying the leather with Fiebing's Pro Oil (black), and then finishing it with Leather Balm and Atom Wax. While I have some experience with the application and properties of Atom Wax itself, I have no experience with its long-term suitability for a piece that will be subject to repeated rubbing against a heavy wool fabric. If any of you have experience with Scottish traditional costume, you know that traditional high-end kilts are quite expensive; If any of the wax, or powers forbid the dye beneath it, were to transfer to the kilt fabric, it would require expensive cleaning at best, and be irrevocably ruined at worst. It is with this in mind that I ask the following question.
Is Atom Wax suitable for the finishing of a sporran? If not, any suggestions for a natural-looking finish that will protect not only the leather, but the fabric against it?
Thanks very much for your experience and advice.
-Caleb
(Attached, an example of the type of sporran I'm building, for those unfamiliar)
