Tarot History

My online excursion through the Bibliothèque nationale de France not only turned up some interesting woodblocks, I also stumbled across this set of cards which appear to be related to the Belgian Tarot:

The BnF had this description (in French)
cote cliché: RC-C-01562
légende: Cartes à jouer : coupes, points et figures
département: Estampes et photographie
cote du document: [...]

I mentioned in the post about the BN Molds that the old fashioned method of producing Tarot cards was to print the Black lines with a block, and then to hand-stencil each of the colors one-by-one.
Amazingly, hand-stenciled cards are still available from cartier-enlumineur Jean-Claude Flornoy, the same craftsman who has published the very successful [...]