What is Tarot Artisanal
French artist, I create tarots cards with three different techniques : First, I Brushpaint single cards from the Nicolas Conver tarot, to create a wishing Hand Painted Card. Second, by printing and gluing cards with three layers, according to the xvıııth century techniques, I create 22 card decks known as the Artisanal Editions. And for the third technique, I print tarots on a white-coated card using high quality printing methods to get the Classic Editions. You may choose the one that you feel the best for you…


Note : this page is the only english page from Tarot Artisanal website. It is a brief overview of my creations and has links that lead to the french pages. It  allows you to buy Tarot decks at eBay, you can also get direct order with its creator, Igor Barzilai, by email.

On this page, you will find these
three main sections :
The Classic Editions,
The Artisanal Editions,
The Hand Painted cards.
Classic Editions
Hight quality printing on a white coated card

Classic editions are printed with a black separation techniques, allowing to have a high precision drawing line. The colors, selected from a pantone palette brings back the spirit of the ancient tarots. These editions are also sold as pocket-size so you can cary them wherever you go.



Tarots et oracles en édition classiques
The Blain Oracle
Created in Blain, this oracle represents the 16 figures in the same style of the tarot de Blain. The Oracle of Blain can be read in three different ways : by using the traditional symbolism of Tarots ; by following the chromatic wheel : a new way to interpret Tarot Cards ; of by determining your Jung-psycho-profile, as explained in the booklet  (french only). By using the same chromatic circle colors, the Oracle of Blain can be used with the Tarot of Blain to create the expanded mandala.

Number of cards : 16
Cards : white coated 350 g/m²  
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Profils de Jung"
Normal-Size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Pocket-size : 40 mm × 80 mm
Delivery : your oracle is sent within 2 days.

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About this deck…
Drawing the tarot de Blain (en)
View the mandala oracle
View expanded mandala (oracle + tarot)


Classic edition of the Blain oracle
Normal-Size     Pocket-Size
50 euros             25 euros


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The Tarot of Besançon
With Junon and Jupiter, this variant based on the Nicolas Conver tarot, switches the papal cards by the two mythologic gods. They have been redrawn to perfeclty fit with the tarot de Marseilles. The pocket size edition has two more cards according to the tarot italien from Lequart (1890). The wrapped paper has been drawn from the sculpture at the Jean Cronet place at Besançon. 

Number of cards : 22 (+2 as pocket size)
Cards : white coated 350 g/m²  
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Tarot de Besançon"
Normal-Size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Pocket-size : 40 mm × 80 mm
Delivery  : your tarot is sent within two days

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About this deck…
How to understand tarot de Besançon (fr)
Wrapped paper of the Besançon tarot (fr)





Classic edition of the Tarot de Besançon
Normal-Size     Pocket-Size
50 euros             25 euros


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The Besançon Expansion
If you already have one of the classic edition of the Besançon, you may be happy to just replace the two special cards to make it a Besançon Tarot. So you will find in this pack Junon and Jupiter in normal and pocket size. The pocket size has two more Junon and Jupiter in a early xxth century, like the Tarot Italien from Lequart. It comes with a booklet containing a historic presentation of the Tarot de Besançon and a short interpretation of the two mythologic gods Junon and Jupiter.

Number of cards : 6 (2 normal + 4 pocket)
Cards : white coated 350 g/m²  
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Tarot de Besançon"
Normal-Size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Pocket-size : 40 mm × 80 mm
Delivery  : your tarot is sent within two days

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About this deck…
How to understand tarot de Besançon (fr)
Wrapped paper of the Besançon tarot (fr)





Classic edition of the Tarot de Besançon
Normal and pocket size
25 euros


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The Nicolas Rolichon Tarot
One of the most ancien popular tarot finally comes out in this classic edition. The cards are accompanied by a french historic booklet. The normal size edition has a 23th bonus card : the two of coins, written "Faict à Lyon par Nicolas Rolichon".

Number of cards : 22
Cards : white coated 350 g/m²  
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Tarot de Nicolas Conver"
Normal-Size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Pocket-size : 40 mm × 80 mm
Delivery  : your tarot is sent within two days

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About this deck…
Click here to see the artisanal edition
Restoring the Nicolas rolichon tarot (fr)





Classic edition of the Tarot de Nicolas Conver
Normal-Size     Pocket-Size
50 euros             25 euros


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The Nicolas Conver Tarot
For the fisrt time, the Nicolas Conver Tarot is printed with its real colors from the xvıııth century. The cards are wrapped leaf of paper originally illustrated, and comes with a history booklet (in french). 

Number of cards : 22
Cards : white coated 350 g/m²  
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Tarot de Nicolas Conver"
Normal-Size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Pocket-size : 40 mm × 80 mm
Delivery  : your tarot is sent within two days

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About this deck…
Click here to see detail photos
Drawing the tarot de Conver (fr)





Classic edition of the Tarot de Nicolas Conver
Normal-Size     Pocket-Size
50 euros             25 euros


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The Blain Tarot
Created in Blain, near Nantes France, these images, freely drawn from old tarot of Marseilles, the Tarot of Blain can be read both with traditional symbolism or by following the chromatic wheel : a new way to interpret Tarot Cards.

Number of cards : 22
Cards : white coated 350 g/m²  
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Initiation au tirage"
Normal-Size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Pocket-size : 40 mm × 80 mm
Delivery : your tarot is sent within two days

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About this deck…
Drawing the tarot de Blain (en)
View the chromatic wheel
Chromatic theory (fr)
Classic edition of the Tarot de Blain
Normal-Size     Pocket-Size
50 euros             25 euros


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Artisanal Editions
Tarot cards made with ancient techniques

Hand-stencil restored, the lines of these editions are printed on ivory uncoated sheets. The colors are reproduced with brush stencil effects and the sheets of paper are pasted together with three different layers of paper as the ancient cards were since the xvıııth century.


The Esoteric tarot
Created from the original drawings by Oswald Wirth, and following his theories, the twenty two arcanas of the eroteric tarot is a symbolic deck. Chromatically coloured, the cards may be placed in un very nice circle, as Oswald Wirth did in his Tarot des imagiers du Moyen Âge. The tarot comes with a french booklet and an astrological reminder cardboard.

Number of cards : 22
Cards : ivory uncoated 260 g/m²
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
french booklet :
Le tarot ésotérique d'Oswald Wirth
Size  : 60 mm × 85 mm
Delivery : your tarot is sent
                 within fifteen working days.

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About this deck…
Symbols of the esoteric tarot (fr)
Esoteric tarot in a chromatic circle (fr)

Introduction to the study
     of tarot (in french)



Introduction à l'étude du tarot d'Oswald Wirth
Tarot ésotérique d'Oswald wirth en édition artisanale

Tarot ésotérique disposé en cercle chromatique

Price : 460 euros


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The esoteric oracle
Designed from Oswald Wirth's original drawings and ideas, this oracle is made of twenty astrological cards : the twelve zodiacal signs and the seven planets. The french booklet introduces to the astrology and learn how to use the cards for fortune telling. The wirthian symbolism and the chromatic colors allow to use this oracle with the esoteric tarot to create an extended oracle and compose a grand mandala of 41 cards. The esoteric oracle has three more cards : planet earth, and two tarot arcanas (World and Fool) with new colors, allowing them to be placed in the center of the Mandala, for structuring it with the four elements.

Number of cards : 22
Cards : ivory uncoated 260 g/m²
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
french booklet :
L'oracle ésotérique d'Oswald Wirth
Size  : 60 mm × 85 mm
Delivery : your tarot is sent within
                 fifteen working days.

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About this deck…
The complete chromatic mandala

The first zodiacal book
      from Oswald Wirth
      is now republished (in french)
Les signes du zodiaque d'Oswald Wirth
Oracle ésotérique d'Oswald wirth en édition artisanale

Tarot ésotérique disposé en cercle chromatique
Mandala chromatique obtenu en combinant l'oracle ésotérique avec le tarot ésotérique.


Price : 460 euros


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The Oswald Wirth Tarot
Drawn by Oswald Wirth following Stanislas de Guaita's instructions, and published at the end of the xıxth century, these pack of 22 cards is the first tarot adjusting to the kaballah. Created from an original 1889 deck, this Oswald Wirth tarot finds back the lines and colors, with their vintage stencil effects. The french booklet presents a history (the occultism, Oswald Wirth biography) and initiation to the kaballah.

For this creation, two size are avaible : standard and tall. The standard size is the same as the usual artisanal editions : squared corners, ivory back of cards with blue pattern and 2 millimeters margin around the pictures. The tall size is exactly as the 1889 first edition : thick cards (450 g/m2), large margin (12 mm), rounded corners, and no pattern on the light-green paper at the back of the cards. 

Number of cards : 22 
Cards : ivory uncoated 260 g/m² or 450 g/m2
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Tarot de Oswald Wirth"
Normal size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Tall size  : 80 mm × 140 mm
Delivery : your tarot is sent within
                 fifteen working days.

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About this deck…
Restoring Oswald Wirth tarot (fr)
Click here to see detail photos
From Kabballah to the tarot (fr)


Artisanal edition of the Oswald Wirth Tarot

Oswald wirth - Tarot 1889 - standard and tall size

Standard size : 460 euros

Tall size : 620 euros


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The Nicolas Rolichon Tarot
Created between the xvıth and the xvııth century, this game is one of the most ancient wooden engraved tarots. Restored from a 1919 page coming out of a french encyclopedia, Nicolas Rolichon tarot finds his lines back and new colors with hand stenciled effects. The french booklet presents the history of the Rolichons family and a studies about the type I tarots.

Number of cards : 22 + 1
Cards : ivory uncoated 260 g/m²  
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Tarot de Nicolas Rolichon"
Standard size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Tall size  : 70 mm × 125 mm
Delivery : your tarot is sent under
                  fifteen working days

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About this deck…
Click here to see detail photos
Restoring the tarot de Rolichon (fr)
Making cards (fr)

Artisanal edition of the Nicolas Rolichon Tarot

Standard size : 460 euros

Tall size : 620 euros


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The Nicolas Conver Tarot
Engraved in 1760, the wooden blocks of Nicolas Conver have been used during more than 120 years. For the fisrt time, the Nicolas Conver Tarot is printed with the original colors of the xvıııth century. The cards are wrapped in an antique-like paper with an original illustration and accompanied by a french history booklet about Nicolas Conver tarot.

Number of cards : 22 + 1
Cards : ivory uncoated 260 g/m²  
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Tarot de Nicolas Conver"
Size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Delivery : your tarot is sent within
                  fifteen working days.

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About this deck…
Click here to see detail photos
Drawing the tarot de Nicolas Conver (fr)
Making cards (fr)

Artisanal edition of the Nicolas conver Tarot

Price : 460 euros


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The Besançon Tarot
For this creation, the two roman divinities have been redrawn to fit with the Tarot de Marseille and the color palette has been selected from a late xıxth century tarot. The booklet (in french only) tells the story of the Tarot de Besançon, which replaces the Pape and the Papesse by Junon and Jupiter. Two bonus cards have been added, as a variant of the two divinities from the Early modern perdiod, which are closer to the Tarot italien known to be made by Lequart and Grimaud.

Number of cards : 22 + 2 (xıxe siècle)
Cards : ivory uncoated 260 g/m²  
Packaging : wrapped paper & box
Booklet : "Histoire du tarot de Besançon"
Size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Delivery : your tarot is sent within
                  fifteen working days.

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About this deck…
Click here to see detail photos
Designing the Besançon artisanal (fr)
Making cards (fr)

tarot de Besançon artisanal

Price : 460 euros




Hand Painted Card
Triple layer glue cards hand painted

I paint your own card from the Nicolas Conver tarot de Marseille from the XVIIIth century. The lines are printed in black on ivory paper and the colors are hand painted with six true colors.

Offer a hand painted card
Hand stenciled, your card is sent in a color envelope, with a history booklet and a note about the chosen tarot card. A band of paper comes around the card with a wishing text of my own. You can replace it by your own speech.


Number of cards : 1
Cards : ivory uncoated 360 g/m²  
Colors : six hand stenciled
Packing : color envelope
Booklet : « Tarots de Nicolas Conver »
Size  : 60 mm × 120 mm
Delivery : your card is sent within
                 five working days.

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About this card…
Click here to see detail photos
Painting of a card (fr)
Tarot de Nicolas Conver 1760

150 € including worldwide shipping




(After ordering, please contact me to let me know the card of your choice)