(Summer Sale) Alchemist Tarot Book

An artist book by Estonian artist Julia Valisava.

An artist book by Estonian artist Julia Valisava.

"This work comes in a very small edition of 22 copies, in keeping with the number of major arcana in the tarot deck. Each book has a different color back cover and is bound in an open binding sewn with silk thread.

The facing pages have a red border. For design reasons, I decided to stitch each spread, because otherwise the border would not be uniform on all sides (it would be impossible to make this border uniform if I had sewed several sheets at once and then trimmed them further).

For the same reason, all pages are trimmed by hand. The Alchemist Tarot also has symbols, some of which I embroidered by hand.

That is why every edition is slightly different and every one is special. The book contains a description of the project and a fortune-telling card printed on a different type of paper. ”─ Julia BorissovaHand-bound and embroidered, limited to 22 copies, signed and numbered by the artist.*"Major Arcana" refers to the 22 cards with allegorical illustrations that make up the 78 cards in a deck of Tarot cards. "Arcana" originally meant "desk drawer," and referred to "things hidden in the drawer," and then came to mean "secret" or "mystery. " It is said to have been a word that began to be used around the 19th century, when Tarot cards began to be seen as mysterious.

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Title: Alchemist Tarot Book
Artist: Julia Borissova
Publisher: Self-published, 2021
Format: Handmade hardcover book with embroideries, handcrafted box with an embroidered obi-band
Size: 170 × 92 × 26 mm
Pages: 96 + 16, of insert with text
Language: English / Russian
Edition: Limited edition of 22 copies, signed and numbered by the artist