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An Interesting Tarot Mold from the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
By robert | March 16, 2008
I was looking through images on the Bibliothèque nationale de France site, and came across a very interesting TdM mold. This type of woodblock mold was used to print the black lines of tarot cards onto sheets of paper, then the sheets were stenciled one color at a time. Unfortunately, the image was not very high resolution, but I was able to increase it in Photoshop to at least get a usable copy to compare with some early Marseille Tarot Decks.
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Topics: François Chosson, Jean Dodal Tarot, Jean Noblet Tarot, Marseille Tarot, Nicholas Conver Tarot, Tarot History |