This Dress Tartan pocket real cloth tartan notebook is part of the Scottish Traditions series from Waverley Books, based in Glasgow. Many dress tartans adopted a white stripe in the sett to signify the difference of wearing a tartan for an occasion, or celebration. This tartan combines the elegance of navy, burgundy, moss green, black and white. This is one of Kinloch Anderson's house tartans range. This pocket notebook contains a bookmark and map of Scotland, and an inner note holder at the back. The left hand page is blank and the right is lined. Making an excellent gift, this pocket notebook is also ideal as a gift to oneself as it is useful for notes, sketches and ideas. The beauty of the cloth and high quality production are inspirational in themselves. Early weavers used local plants and natural products for their dyes so the locality of the weaver affected the colours of the local tartan. The genuine tartan cloth used for this notebook is supplied by and produced with the authority of Kinloch Anderson Scotland. Commonplace notebooks date back to the Scottish Enlightenment. Thinkers and writers used a Commonplace notebook for ideas and knowledge. Adam Smith, Robert Burns, David Hume, and later, writers such as Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Virginia Woolf used commonplace notebooks.
