Playing Card Stencilling
Dreveton - Provence pattern
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by Simon Wintle
French cardmakers Jean and François Dreveton lived in Aix-en-Provence.
Manufacture of Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Traditionally cardmakers worked in guilds with long apprenticeships under master craftsmen.
Printing of Playing Cards: Stencilling
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by Simon Wintle
Printing of Playing Cards :: Stencilling can usually be detected by observing the outlines of the coloured areas which are often irregular with brush strokes discernible in the coloured areas.