LA SAINTE-SATURE

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LA SAINTE-SATURE

LA SAINTE-SATURE LA SAINTE-SATURE is a cardgame project of 54 cards drawn by Erwan Roussel which will be printed using engraving techniques and edited by Matière Grasse editions. 📷 We would like to offer you a unique object: original illustrations, a new court cards system and all that entirely homemade in our workshop through unusual printing techniques to say the least (laser-woodcut !!!) which contrast with classic card games industrial productions. AND we want you to be able to receive this pure marvel on time for Christmas season!!! GAME HISTORY La Sainte-Sature game is composed of four colours: Heart-wells, Dinars, Vines and Stakes, derivatives of traditional English Hearts, Diamonds, Spades and Clubs. Inspired by German and Italian card games, as well as Tarot of Marseilles, the cards evolve in a rich and organic way as parts of a medieval and pagan environment. 📷 Heart-wells are incessantly sweating and trickling wineskins, Dinars are crowns entangling with chains and pearls, Stakes are spears getting arranged and aligned, and Vines are relentlessly proliferating leaves (see below) 📷 In the game we present, court cards are neither Jacks, Queens nor Kings. We had at heart to not perpetuate this tradition of domination symbols (of age, of gender, of class) which have done their time but which we do not want anymore ! Instead, La Sainte-Sature tells the evolution of one single character which initiatory journey we will follow to sublime the elements’ accumulation ! Court cards will indeed represent the three steps of the elements’ organisation relying on architectural imagery, namely : 📷 (in English, it would translate by "First Fix", "Second Fix" and Chef d'Oeuvre!) We have taken these terms from their craftsmanship context and associated them to simple symbols making the new court cards instinctively recognisable and easy to play! An example with Stakes above: Gros Oeuvre (First Fix) depicts a character collecting spears (which have accumulated from card 1 to 10) and fumbling with them. In Second Oeuvre (Second Fix), he isolates himself and focuses on mastering those spears. In Chef d’Oeuvre he eventually, through his rigour and intransigeance, made himself an impregnable fortress. Each family tells, following the same format, its own initiatory quest and the unexpected paths chosen by its characters to handle la Sainte-Sature. These stories will also be incorporated in the game in the form of a booklet for you to not miss a thing! A FEW TECHNICAL DETAILS La Sainte-Sature will have the classical framework of card games: 54 cards (13 for each family + 2 jokers), 65x105mm format (longer than French standard) with rounded corners. 📷 The printing will be done through laser woodcut ! This technique has become quite the speciality for Matière Grasse editions and allows for a unique texture and printing quality (thanks to wood texture and its ink absorption) meanwhile being able to keep the subtlety of Erwan’s drawing (thanks to laser precision). It is also a nod to card games production which started in the 14th century using the very same woodcut ! Tradition AND innovation, it’s a win-win! It is not the first time we use this technique as we relied on it to edit the Tarot Païen (the picture above was extracted from said project) as well as a comic revue : Matière Grasse 5, which were both successfully funded on KissKissBankBank! The wood matrixes were then printed using Heidelberg typographic presses (see above), a German mechanical wonder from the 60s, which we borrow from Studio Pression in Tarn! In the 60s, planned obsolescence was obsolete it seems. The game will then be assembled by hand as can be seen below (because at Matière Grasse, we love elbow grease) and packed in a pretty box (which graphism is yet to be finished)! WHO ARE WE Erwan Roussel is the drawer of La Sainte-Sature game. He is an illustrator based between Rennes and Brussels. Equipped with an archaeological background and contacts coming straight from hell, he developed a drawing and micro-editions practice filled with queer softness, old references and witchy transformations. As a folkloric and popular imageries passionate, he takes care in offering rereadings and representations to enchant iconographies and queer imaginaries. 📷 Photo : Renaud Duc ······················································································ Mathieu Zanellato is the editor/printer of this project. He created a few years ago Matière Grasse editions that make doing painful, costly and by no means profitable projects that no one else would have bother editing a point of honor. He edits books, posters, t-shirts, card games, wallpaper… basically everything that can bear with thick coats of ink and his strong passion for printed matter. Since 2019, he use Tarn located Studio Pression ’s machines to print in woodcut, linocut, letterpress, foilstamp, stencil and many others’ productions. 📷

Allocation of funds

We want to introduce an original manually printed and shaped card game which usually cost a lot of money. Now, it is very important for Matière Grasse that this game is kept accessible to as many people as possible without having to make concessions on production quality. 📷 Ci-dessus : aperçu du Tarot Païen de Joseph Levacher édité par Matière Grasse l'année dernière To minimize costs, we won't be subcontracting any step of the printing (except the production of ink and paper, that we are not mastering yet), but seeing how much work that entails, we would like to make sure that our Jeu de la Sainte Sature will find buyers and that it will not be rotting in our stocks ! We are opposed to mass production and the paper and energy waste it represents; therefore, we prefer to print the number of card games that we know we will sell (adding samples for fairs etc…). Our deck funded this way, we would not fear any financial risk and could offer our handprinted card game at a preferential tariff of 25 euros. We also set in place a solidary reduced tariff (20 euros) for those who cannot afford to spend a lot on a card games but who would still like to treat themselves or others to something special for the holidays ! 📷 Matière Grasse has already been using crowdfunding for a linocut project in 2013, l'Enfer Vert; for two illustration revues, Matière Grasse 2 and Matière Grasse 5 ; and of course CARD DECKS :Scopa Worldwide, Guillotine and the Tarot Païen ! OTHER COUNTERPARTS You can add to the purchase of Le Jeu de la Sainte Sature some other editions, all handprinted by Matière Grasse : Matière Grasse 3 (collective book on the topic of the Tarot de Marseille, 9 artists, 50 pages, inside in risograph, cover in linocut) 📷 ___________________________________________________________________ Matière Grasse 4 (collective book on the topic of the Seven Wonders, 9 artists, 50 pages, inside in risograph, cover in linocut) 📷 ___________________________________________________________________ Matière Grasse 5 (collective book on the topic of Fake News, 9 artists, 64 pages, all printed in woodcut !!!) 📷 ___________________________________________________________________ Orsay Découpé (by Mathieu Zanellato, all screenprinted, copies of famous painting with the only use of a cutting knife) 📷 ___________________________________________________________________ Matière Grise 1 (by Mathieu Zanellato, inside in linocut, cover in foilstamp) 📷 ___________________________________________________________________ Cour/Jardin (by Paul Dorsi, inside in silkscreen, cover in foilstamp) 📷 ___________________________________________________________________ Friture (collective book, "Where's Waldo ?" like, size30x40cm, silkscreen) 📷

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LA SAINTE SATURE CARD DECK !

€25

  • 84 contributions
You will a receive a copy of our marvellous card deck for Christmas !

Estimated delivery: December 2021

La Sainte Sature at a solidarity reduced tariff !

€20

  • 66 contributions
We want to keep our productions affordable so feel free to purchase the deck at a reduced price ! You will receive the exact same as the others for Christmas !

Estimated delivery: December 2021

La Sainte Sature + an book from Matière Grasse editions

€40

  • 13 contributions
You will receive one copy of La Sainte Sature card deck and an edition printed by Matière Grasse to select among the following : Matière Grasse 3 Matière Grasse 4 Matière Grise 1 Orsay Découpé Friture Cour/Jardin You can see more on all those projects by scrolling down the page ;)

Estimated delivery: December 2021

TWO DECKS

€50

  • 17 contributions
You will receive TWO La Sainte Sature card decks for Christmas !

Estimated delivery: December 2021

UPDATE : the two latest projects from Matière Grasse editions

€55

  • 2 contributions
You will receive for Christmas : one copy of La Sainte Sature card deck one copy of Matière Grasse 5, a collective comics book all printed in laser woodcut !!

Estimated delivery: December 2021

THREE

€70

  • 3 contributions
You will receive THREE copies of La Sainte Sature for Christmas !

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FOUR of a kind !

€85

  • 1 contribution
You will receive FOUR copies of La Sainte Sature for Christmas !

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FIVE !!!!!

€100

  • 3 contributions
You will receive FIVE copies of La Sainte Sature card deck for Christmas !

Estimated delivery: December 2021

ALL-IN FULL PACKAGE !!

€200

    YOU'RE CRAZY ! You will receive for Christmas : 5 copies of La Sainte Sature card deck 1 copy of Orsay Découpé 1 copy of Matière Grasse 3 1 copy of Matière Grasse 4 1 copy of Matière Grasse 5 1 copy of Matière Grise 1 1 copy of Friture 1 copy of Cour/Jardin You'll now everything about Matière Grasse editions ! You can see more infos/pictures of those books down the page below !

    Estimated delivery: December 2021

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    EARLY BIRD : TWO DECKS AT A VERY REDUCED PRICE !

    €40

    • 25 contributions
    Thanks a lot for your early trust ! We will have the pleasure to send you TWO copies of La Sainte Sature card deck for Christmas !

    Estimated delivery: December 2021