This Black and White Tartan mini notebook with pen, features puffins on the front, and is bound in genuine tartan cloth. Part of the Scottish Traditions tartan series, the black and white tartan is a house tartan for Kinloch Anderson. This mini notebook has an elastic closure, ribbon marker, eight perforated end leaves, and an expandable inner note holder. The notebook also has a retractable pen. The notebook has 96 ... Read More > pages and each spread has one page lined, and one page plain. The small size is handy to carry in a bag or pocket. Black and white is a popular tartan to wear for weddings and celebrations. And we find these colours in the highlands and islands, black grouse, capercaillie, puffins, and the Black Isle are part of Scotland’s natural landscape. 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. Many thinkers and writers used a Commonplace notebook for writing down 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.