Alchemist Tarot Book

"This work is a very small edition of 22 copies, matching the number of major arcana in the tarot deck. Each sheet has a different color on the back cover, and the binding is an open book that is sewn with silk thread. Spread. The pages are bordered in red.For design reasons, I decided to put stitches on each spread, otherwise the borders wouldn't be the same size on all sides (how many pages at a time? (If I sewed and trimmed more, it would have been impossible to even out this frame.) I trim all the pages by hand for the same reason.Alchemist Tarot also has a symbol mark, Some of it is embroidered by hand by me, which is why every edition is slightly different and makes each one special.This book contains project descriptions and different types of paper. ” — Julia Borissova

Handbound book with embroidery, limited to 22 copies. Signed and numbered by the artist.

*"Major arcana" refers to the allegorical cards that make up 22 of the 78 Tarot decks. The word "arcana" changed from "desk drawer" to "something hidden" in a drawer, and then to "secret" or "mystery." It is said that the word began to be used around the 19th century when the Tarot began to be viewed as a mystical object.

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Title: Alchemist Tarot Book
Artist: Julia Borissova
Self published, 2021
Handmade hardcover book with embroideries, handcrafted box with an embroidered obi-band
170 x 92 x 26 mm
96 + 16 pages of insert with text pages
Text in English and Russian
Limited edition of 22 copies, signed and numbered by the artist
¥34,000 -