Collage Supplies: Playing Cards/Tarot Cards

 
Blank ATC Cards and/or Glassine Envelopes

Your choice of 20 cards or 10 cards with 10 glassine envelopes or just 10 glassine envelopes. Envelopes are 2-1/2" x 4-1/4". Cards are slightly narrower (and 3-1/2" tall) and have rounded corners like playing cards.

Glassine is archival and is normally used for preserving photographic negatives.

Smaller glassine envelopes and Cream-Colored Blank ATCs.

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Silk Tarot Bags

Beautiful, hand-made silk drawstring bags (that are washable), made in Prague, and based on 19th century engravings by JJ Grandville (with one addition from the amazing Kostnice Ossuary ("bone chapel") in the Czech Republic.

The bags are 6 x 8". The backs of the bags use fabric from vintage kimonos. The bags are fully lined in muslin. Clockwise from upper left:

• The Pansy/Purple
• The Bone Chapel/Black (SOLD OUT)
• The Rose/Olive (SOLD OUT)
• The Dahlia/Rust

$17.95 $29.95

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History of Typography Playing Cards

We designed a set of playing cards using four historical eras important in the development of lettering as the four suits. In addition to the typography theme, each suit features letters from 1/2 of the alphabet (so two entire alphabets are illuminated in this deck). The following introduction to the suits is printed on a cover card:

• The Columns suit uses Roman capitals chiseled on the Trajan Column.
• The Banners suit uses Medieval Lombardic capitals that were hand-painted in manuscripts.
• Escutcheons use early metal type from the infancy of printing.
• Calligraphy uses ornamental calligraphy from the Baroque era.

They are 2-3/4 x 4-1/4", printed in crisp black ink on 100 lb matte-coated cover stock. (Note: these cards were designed as a client gift for our parent company, Capacis.)

You can buy the whole deck or just a suit for using in collage projects.

Sale prices:
Full Deck, $5.99;
Single Suits, $1.75

(Regular price:
Full Deck, $9.95;
Single Suits, $2.95)

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