Waverley Genuine Cloth Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebooks – serie

This Black Watch tartan cloth pocket notebook has 176pp of 80gsm cream paper, with left page plain, right page ruled. With pen loop in this new edition, With a ribbon marker, an expandable inner note pocket, elastic enclosure, a leaflet about the history of tartan, and a colourful bookmark with a brief history of the Black Watch tartan. Comes in a light plastic wrapper bag. Commonplace notebooks (or 'commonplaces') were a way to compile and record knowledge and were used by many thinkers, scientists and writers in Scottish history (the Scottish Enlightenment) such as Adam Smith, Robert Burns, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, James Hutton, John Playfair and Adam Ferguson. Their popularity continued with many famous British authors and artists using them such as Virginia Woolf, Walter Scott, John Milton, Francis Bacon, E.M.Forster, W.H Auden, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This range of Waverley Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebooks celebrates tartan. Tartan belongs to Scottish heritage and to Scottish culture past and present. Tartan thrives today both at home and overseas. There are now over 7,000 tartans officially recorded in the Scottish Register of Tartans located within the National Archive of Scotland.Waverley Books is working with Kinloch Anderson, Edinburgh, who supplied genuine tartan cloth from weavers in Scotland, and the Borders. Deirdre Kinloch Anderson helped to establish the Scottish Register of Tartans, which guarantees tartan is secure in the public domain and for the heritage of Scotland.

Waverley Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebooks: Black Watch Tartan Cloth Mini Notebook with Pen This mini gift hardback notebook bound in Black Watch authentic British cloth comes with a pen, and is a stylish, high quality notebook made from FSC paper. Comes in a biodegrable cello bag.with elastic closure, ribbon marker, eight perforated end leaves, and expandable inner note holder. Each includes a retractable pen. Materials used Paper materials in our notebooks are FSC. We use 80gsm cream for notebook paper inside and 180gsm FSC cream for endpapers. 128gsm for bellybands Board used in the case-making process is 'greyboard' - a low grade 100% recycled grey-coloured thick board used in bookbinding. We protect finished products with biodegradable film bags. The film is made from resin which is derived from corn or other starch/sugar sources. These bags compost fully into CO2, water and biomass. Waverley Scotland Tartan Commonplace Notebooks 80 styles, across 40 clans, and 20 themed tartans. The notebooks are bound in cloth woven in mills in Great Britain. The tartan cloth is supplied by and produced with the authority of Kinloch Anderson Scotland, holders of Royal Warrants of Appointments. Kinloch Anderson are tailors and kiltmakers, tartan and Highland Dress specialists since 1868. Black Watch Tartan The origins of the Black Watch date from the time of the unsuccessful 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, where James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), - the Old Pretender - son of the deposed James II, (James II (14 October 1633 - 16 September 1701) was King of England and King of Ireland, and King of Scotland as James VII), fought to put the exiled House of Stuart back on the throne. From 1725, General George Wade (1673-1748) formed six military companies from the clans of the Campbells, Grants, Frasers and Munros. They were stationed in small detachments across the Highlands to prevent fighting among the clans, deter raiding, and to assist in enforcing laws against the carrying of weapons. In short, they were tasked with protecting the interests of the Hanoverian throne in Scotland. Wade issued an order in May 1725, for the companies all to wear plaid of the same sort and colour. Their original uniform was made from a 12-yard long plaid of the tartan that we know now as the Black Watch tartan. They wore a scarlet jacket and waistcoat, with the tartan cloth worn over the left shoulder. The name is said to come from the dark tartan they wore, hence "black", and from the fact that they were policing the land, hence "watch". The Black Watch Castle and Museum states that the cloth would be wrapped around both shoulders and firelock (a musket type of gun) in rainy weather, and served as a blanket at night. The Black Watch saw action in the French wars (1745-1815); battles of the Empire (Crimea, Indian Mutiny, Egypt, Sudan, Boer War); First World War; Second World War; and (post Second World War) saw action in Korea; carried out peace-keeping duties in Kenya, Cyprus and the Balkans; and took part in the invasion of Iraq (2003-4). Since 2006, the Black Watch has been the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.