Waverley Commonplace Notebooks: Dress Stewart Large Notebook

This Large Dress Stewart Tartan Notebook (21x 13cm) with 192 pages from Waverley Scotland has left page blank, right page ruled.Queen Victoria adopted the Dress Stewart tartan and it became wildly popular.The paper is FSC 80 gsm smooth cream paper from sustainable forests.It was genuine British cloth, with elastic closure, ribbon marker, eight perforated end leaves and expandable inner note holder.A removable booklet about the history of the clan tartans, and a bookmark that gives information on the Dress Stewart tartan.It is an arisaid sett of Royal Stewart tartan - a Dress version of the Royal Stewart.Dress tartans often exhanged the key part of the sett with white to achieve a more formal look.These white tartans were known as arisaids (or arasaids) worn as a dress - a long feminine version of the masculine belted plaid. King George IV's visit in 1822 was pivotal in the tartan story, and Queen Victoria was to bring her own influence on tartan.Queen Victoria was crowned Queen in 1838