The Hunting Tartan mini notebook comes with a pen, and is made from genuine tartan cloth and is a Kinloch Anderson house tartan, part of the Scottish Traditions series. Hunting tartans adopt darker greens and browns to blend in with the Scottish landscape. Early weavers relied upon local plants and natural products for their dyes so the locality of the weaver had a bearing on the colours of the local tartan. The ... Read More > Hunting tartan is one of Kinloch Anderson's house tartans and part of Waverley's Scottish Traditions range. This mini notebook has 96 pages, a hardback binding, an elastic closure, ribbon marker, eight perforated end leaves, and an inner note holder, and an expandable inner note holder. The notebook also has a retractable pen. The left hand page is blank and the right hand page is lined. 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.