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New card set, based on a early 18th century french card deck. No jokers. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694387 --- From comment https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694387#c1 : I've digitized and coloured a traditional French deck from the early 18th century. it's called "guyenne", from the name of the French region where it was in use. the idea of the back comes from some Moroccan handicraft. problem is that in those years jokers had not been invented yet, From comment https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694387#c5 : my direct source is "De Geschiedenis van de Speelkaart", by Han Hanssen, edited by Elmar b.v., Rijswijk 1985. the specific card set is at page 85, and it is reported as taken from »d'Allemagne, Henry René, "le cartes à jouer, du XVIe au XXe siècle" (2 delen), Paris 1906, deel 1, p 125.« the source I used is not a copy of a set of individual cards (where there would still be the uncertainty of when the card has been coloured) it's a print of the original wooden pattern, I digitized it using gimp and inkscape, then coloured it taking some inspiration from cards I could find on the net looking for "guyenne playing cards", but mainly it's my own decision what colours to use, because I wanted the predominant hue in the different suits to be rather uniform. in short: I do not think you can find an image of this wooden pattern on the internet other than here now. GPL v 3-or-later is more than fine!
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