Composition notebooks are not great notebooks. Their covers fray, ... This cheaper, faster method led to the widespread use of marbling pattern on blank notebooks and book covers.

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The marbling pattern created in Germany and seen both then and today as the inspiration for many composition book cover designs was known as the agate pattern. When that cover design caught on, it ...