I decided to get someone to make me a bag cover, to put a little pizzaz into my practice. They asked how it is attached, so I said, hm, I don’t know! So, does it have a zipper?
Anyone come across pics or design specs for making one of these?
Depends on the maker.
My Wooff set had the cover seam sewn closed.
My Childress set had a folded flap at the back (with fringe) that you could remove or re-arrange should the bag slip around. My Mackenzie covers are similar, without the fringe.
Can’t do pictures right now… perhaps tomorrow.
Elbogo, the cover doesn’t attach. It just fits over the bag. It needs to be big enough to allow the bag to inflate fully. You can close the end at the back any way you choose: zipper, velcro, buttons, etc. Lay the bag down flat and trace its outline. Your cover will be this size twice, plus extra for the seam along the bottom edge. There is a simple collar an inch or two high that fits around the fitting for the stock and blowpipe from the bellows. You may choose to run a fringe along the bottom edge as part of the seam. Bag covers are traditionally green, or purple for Lent, and are made of upholstery velvet.
djm
DJM when I said the above,which ye have quoted,some time ago,it was meant as a JOKE!! green and purple being the vestments the Priest wore at mass! :roll: I was going to add black for funerals and white for weddings and Easter but I thought ye would have got the idea with green and purple!!!No such thing as traditional colours , green and wine red seem popular,but ye can have beer brown or guinness black if ye like…up to yersel…I’m wondering now if there are a load of purple bags over there on the strength of what I said 
bit like Skippy 
Slan Go Foill
Uilliam
Elbogo, be sure to let the person making the bagcover know that it ought to be 2 to 3 inches longer than the tracing of your pipebag, in this way when the the cover is slipped over the bag there is ample room and the pipebag will remain covered while it is fully inflated. I don’t know why, but I find a bag cover that is too short slightly irritating…my cover is this way, and I need to construct a new one. I have all the materials, but my wife wont let me near her nice sewing machinery…can’t imagine why. 
Sorry, Uilliam, your joke went astray. I’m not a Christian, let alone RC, so I wouldn’t see the joke. Come to think of it, I still don’t see the joke. 
Bag covers are traditionally green or purple, but it still seems nobody knows why. Myself, I went with the zebra skin pattern.
djm
What’s the rest of the outfit?
Fur hat, cape, leather pants?
They most certainly are not traditionally PURPLE,a lot maybe green but there is not a traditional colour,(thats why nobody knows anything about it),+ nobody cares except of course thee and me 
ps I’ll light a candle for ye next time I think o it,and offer up a prayer for your deliverence.(to wherever ye like!)
Slan Go Foill
Uilliam
With regard to the question, “How does it attach?” - -
Think of a pillow case.
The cover that came with my second hand set is open in the back like a pillow case. It is a couple of inches longer than the leather bag. I started using it when it got hot this summer. It hasn’t moved anywhere during use.
John
There is a flag commonly seen at different events but I don,t know what it is called but it is dark green with a gold harp on it . I think green bag cover with gold trim is fairly traditional in keeping with those flag colours
RORY
I have always thought that ‘traditional colours’ were a forest green and a faded blue. Am I wrong in this way of thinking? What colours one chooses for their bag cover is, of course, a matter of taste.
The flag ye refer to is one carried by the United Irishmen in the Great Rebellion of 1798.
Green is the National Colour of Ireland (the emerald isle etc)
The Tricolour(all genuflect at this point)was introduced in line with the French Ideal of Equality and Fraternity and their Tricolour.
The two traditions of Ireland, Green for Catholic and Orange for the rest, joined together in equality and fraternity by White was the general idea.Worked well didn’t it???
Joseph is both right and wrang.
There is no TRADITIONAL colour for the bag cover…is there a traditional colour for GHB covers? noooh,so why should there be one for UPs.Its an American thing I think all this tradional stuff…well it is with the UPs…lets invent it as we go along seems to be the thinking and call it traditional.Thing is Ireland not so long ago was a poor poor country and the people by necessity had to be innovative and use whatever was to hand. This then became TRADITIONAL? if ye told one of the old timers “ah thats a lovely traditional green cover ye have there”,he would probably laugh at ye ,call ye a thick eejit and tell ye they were old curtains being thrown away.Colour immaterial.
The choice of colour indeed material is individual so why not be so!
The tassles incidentally are a typical Tinker thing,they added colour all over the place to brighten up their caravans etc Fine if ye like that sort o thing but I find them gaudy when overdone and a nuisance when they get caught in the keys etc when the bag is folded up in the case.
There now,I think ye know where I stand with bag covers!
Joseph is right inasmuch ye should please yersel…but don’t call it traditional!!!
Uilliam
…uh, do you suppose you could be a little clearer on that?
I’ve got a purple bag cover and bellows pad, but only 'cause my daughter loves purple.
Holstein! Its the only way to cover your bag.
djm
Just curious to know who “the rest” are that are so dubiously refferred to here! You mean PROTESTANTS right? 
:roll: Sheesh!
And in matter of fact, the national color of Ireland used to be blue and not green at all. Blue is often mentioned as the color representing St. Patrick. So that should settle it then right? So unless everyone’s bag is wearing the traditional government issued blue bag cover you’ll be shot at dawn.
Honestly, color (as with religion etc.) is immaterial. Wish the blokes from the South and the North would figure that out someday soon. But then of couse, we’d all have to change our bags to something like the Greek flag and we all know that blue and white stripes will only make us look fatter!
I wrote…The two traditions of Ireland, Green for Catholic and Orange for the rest
No :roll: Brian..ye obviously are not on the same wavelength as moi.. 
Read the sentence again,and again if necessary.I said two(2) traditions..Catholic and …the rest.
The" rest" being plural would signify that I am talking about more than one other.If I wanted to say protestants then I would…but in Catholic Ireland the rest meant EVERYONE else who wasnae Catholic…Jew Hindu Atheist, English and yes Protestant.That was the case historically because if ye weren’t Catholic then ye were not in the club.If ye read it correctly then ye would see that it is a jibe at that state of affairs.
Of course ye seem to have a revisionist view of your own history where the blokes frae the North figured it out with the guys frae the Confederate South by having a tete a tete did they?in your own parlance..sheesh!!
{(what does sheesh mean?.Is it Jewish? over here it is associated with Kebabs!)so if I am using an expression of exasperation, then an image of reformed Lamb meat rotating on a spit in front of a grill is just the sort of despairing message I want to get across!!! }
Blue was the colour of the Starry Plough flag which was another United Irish emblem.Green was chosen as the colour because,again, following the French example,greenery in the form of leaves etc was readily available as the rebellion occured in summer and was worn as an identification emblem on hats ,bonnetts doorways windows as a symbol that ye were with the revolution(rebellion)…thereafter the “wearing of the Green” was considered Nationalistic.
So as I didnae refer to anything remotely"dubiously" as ye put it …but would suggest that it is all in yer own wee mind,then I think an apology wouldnae go amiss,would it!
For your penance say three “Hail Marys’”… 
:roll: Kebab!
Slan
Uilliam
The only thing I would agree on with ye is that it doesnae matter a toss what colour,what material what fastening or what tassles ye have on your bag as long as ye are happy,and for the record the same goes for that curse of humanity called religion.
Its interesting that stuff I am presently reading from the early 19th century lists Catholics, Protestants and Presbyterians, as though the Presbyterians planted from Scotland were something to keep segregated from the Protestants. No doubt this adds weight to Uilliams argument of “orange for all the rest”.
I understand that Ireland, north and south, has become much more cosmopolitan in recent years. Buddhism is sweeping the burbs of Belfast, and it has been reported that you can’t walk through Shannon airport without being mobbed by young Irish people bellowing some wild Gaelic chant that sounds vaguely like “Hairy Christer”.
djm
From “Bag Covers” to “Weird History”. Wow.