MARCH 2020. Cards made by the late Jean Claude Flornoy will restore your faith in humanity. Well made cards, well researched, deeply thought out, reasonably priced products (Especially compared to similar products sold in the USA!!), and great services.
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Here we have their Jean Dodal from the 18th century, redrawn for the 21st century, by Flornoy himself, in the historical French town of the cartiers of old, Sainte Suzanne. --- This was my gateway Tarot de Marseille (Look at those eyes!!) and from there, many other antique and historical cards.
"Tarot is the "Compostela of the soul". it is the star of the way for the pilgrim soul that, step by step, we walk during our journey through the Earth. Tarot is the thread of Ariadne of the psychonautics or, better said, of the tarotnautics. It's the guide for inner transformation, the finger that points towards the moon. We are aware of the stages that we go through phase after phase and it explains them to us. He's a travel companion who, from time to time, dives us into his vision shattering our preconceptions. A Magic is activated then and enters into action. The age of the sorcerers is reborn and living is again an adventure! Tarot is a "drunken ship". Drunken of freedom, of joy, of living in the present. A ship powered by the wind of the analogy over the ocean of the soul" (Jean Claude Flornoy)
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(1) I am still thinking about what tarot is in relation to Flornoy"s proposition of it Any spirituality imbued in the tarot seems very purposeful according to his take on things. To me, they are there by implication, not so much by design, because these tarot cards are mass produced playing cards, and thus socio-historical and cultural artefacts of a time when spirituality and religion were intrinsically intertwined in daily and political lives and in their social and public presentations.
(2) The "East" and the "West" have always been merging, and these merges are often seen in cultural artefacts. Even today. So that part of it, I can personally see.
(3) It was theorised that the two collections, one in the British Museum and the other in Museum of France, are printed from woodblocks created in the same workshop, although differences can be spotted in lines and in colourings.
(4) The carver's signature can usually be found on the shield in the Chariot card, but can not be found here.
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A BIT ABOUT JEAN CLAUDE FLORNOY
autorbis.net/jean-claude-flornoy
"Jean-Claude Flornoy is a cartier-enlumineur and artisan d?art who has devoted 20 years to the study of tarot. In 1996 he undertook the restoration of the tarot of Nicolas Conver (Marseille, 1760), painting each arcane on giant canvases (220 cm by 110 cm). His aim was to faithfully bring this traditional imagery back to (larger than) life in all its original freshness. He then progressed to large-sized versions of other historic tarots derived from originals preserved in the BibliothËque Nationale in Paris: Jean Noblet (Paris, c. 1650), Jean Dodal (Lyon, 1701) and a number of trumps from Jacques ViÈville (Paris, c. 1650).
It was in spending the necessary weeks on each outsized arcane that he was able to come to 'understand' the way the images are operative in themselves. He regularly transports these large canvases for exhibitions, and proposes conference-workshops in a variety of tarot-related contexts.
The next step was to publish, in traditional hand stencil-coloured versions, the 22 trumps of the tarots of Jean Noblet and of Jean Dodal. These are intended to correspond in every respect as closely as possible to what they resembled when new.
In a step away from artisan productions, but moving old tarots closer to a wider audience, an industrial, Complete Jean Noblet Tarot, was published in June 2007."
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"SEEING THE WORLD: TAROT SIGNPOSTS ON THE PATH TO PERCEPTION" can be purchased through their websites here --
Their shop in French letarot.com/
Their shop in English www.tarot-history.com/
www.tarot-history.com/The-Atel...
www.tarot-history.com/boutique...
Also here
www.treadwells-london.com/pro...
(PRICES -- For context: I know of at least of one majors only set of 22 cards sold by another establishment in the USA, which are not hand stencilled (?) but produced on demand on similar art paper with an asking price of USD $250...The workshop of Jean Claude Flornoy is selling similar historical 22 cards for under EUR 50..!!!)
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I AM NOT AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY WITH THE WORKSHOP OF THE LATE JEAN CLAUDE FLORNOY
I am a fan and and believer of their (his) work.
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It is rare today to have products in tarot which combine integrity of purpose, conviction, craftsmanship, history, price, and service.
Please check out their boutique (atelier) and support them.
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