St. Jacobi Parochie [The Netherlands], W. Dijkstra, ca. 1915-1920. School notebook (21.0 x 16.5 cm). 18 pp., each with colourful samples of paper weavings on recto and verso (36 in total). Plain wrappers with blue and white octagonal label pasted on the front wrapper, and name and place hand-written in ink.

A unique piece of folk art from the province of Friesland, in the northern Netherlands. Made by a boy named Willem Dijkstra. On a basis of narrow strips of glossy paper, the samples show a wide, pleasant and intriguing variety of tessellations and colour combinations. With Willem being a very common Dutch first name, and Dijkstra being one of the most common Frisian surnames, it is difficult to establish the artist's identity. However, St. Jacobi Parochie (now: Sint Jacobiparochie) was and is a very small town, founded in 1505 by Catholic immigrants from Holland who diked this remote part of the Netherlands along the Wadden Sea. A St. Jacobiparochie farmer named Willem Dijkstra married in 1935 at the age of 27. Being born in 1907 or 1908, he may have been the artist. Wrappers damp-stained, and chipped at spine fold and edges; interior not affected; some very minor defects to the tessellations, otherwise very good.