I've made two sizes of test Tarot decks so far: 3.½*5.¼" ("large"), and 2.½*3⅞ ("small"). Unsurprisingly, the large ones have a lot more impact than the small ones.
But I just made a small deck with almost as much visual impact as the large one. The key? Removing the white borders. I still have the numbers, suit symbols, and the rows of vertical lines on the pips and Courts - but the Majors are completely unlabeled now. A borderless large deck should probably be really amazing.
(click for close-up!)
I dunno if I'll be able to have it mass-produced like this, but I think all the decks I make by hand are going to be done this way. Probably with numbers and names on the Majors, though.
(Anyone want a hand-made Tarot deck, by the way? $130, and to be honest, I'm not making that much profit on 'em after getting a nice box to stick it in, and buying more ink every three decks.)
Also, I am pretty sure that the list of what's available from the gallery that I posted earlier was incorrect; it's unavailable until I get things synched with the item numbers the gallery was using.
But I just made a small deck with almost as much visual impact as the large one. The key? Removing the white borders. I still have the numbers, suit symbols, and the rows of vertical lines on the pips and Courts - but the Majors are completely unlabeled now. A borderless large deck should probably be really amazing.
(click for close-up!)
I dunno if I'll be able to have it mass-produced like this, but I think all the decks I make by hand are going to be done this way. Probably with numbers and names on the Majors, though.
(Anyone want a hand-made Tarot deck, by the way? $130, and to be honest, I'm not making that much profit on 'em after getting a nice box to stick it in, and buying more ink every three decks.)
Also, I am pretty sure that the list of what's available from the gallery that I posted earlier was incorrect; it's unavailable until I get things synched with the item numbers the gallery was using.