In the scriptoria of monasteries of early medieval Britain and Ireland, breathtakingly beautiful illuminated manuscripts were created. The characteristic decorative patterns, calligraphic texts, and illustrative styles of these manuscripts are easily recognisable, and together make up what is now usually called the insular style. The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells are no doubt the most famous of the insular gospel books, but there are also others.

Certain pages in the gospel books were illuminated with wonderful artwork, including detailed patterns of many kinds, and also portraits, usually of the four evangelists. The patterns were often used to make decorative borders, surrounding the portraits or canon tables. They were also used to make ornamented letters and text in so-called incipit pages, highly decorated pages with the first words of each of the gospels. Other pages were filled completely with patterns, and these are now usually called carpet pages.

The Liber Ludorum playing cards are a set of cards drawn in the style of an insular gospel book, with aces resembling the so-called carpet pages, and the court cards inspired by evangelist portraits.

Playing cards arrived in Europe at the end of the late medieval period, rather later than the time when the insular art style flourished. There can be no doubt that creating a set of playing cards would be far from the minds of the insular scribes while they were working on their gospel books. And yet we do have other surviving manuscripts, also illuminated, written by students of the medieval church, filled with thoughts of gaming, playing, changing fortunes and twisting fates, and our earthly existence.

What is Liber Ludorum anyway? 52 poker-sized (2.5" x 3.5") playing cards 4 bonus cards Custom artwork: 16 fully illustrated court cards and aces Custom watercolour pip cards Two-way back design 320 gsm black-core card stock (Superlux) with linen finish Custom tuck box Printed by Cartamundi

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/737088756/liber-ludorum-playing-cards

2020 DOTY Award Nominee: 'Best Ace', 'Best Rookie Deck'

In this project, we tried our best to know these great warriors, to honor the past, inform the present and inspire the future.

Tuck Box: - Tuck made by GAMBLER'S WAREHOUSE - Use of gold, silver and red FOIL for the tuck box - The tuck box will have EMBOSSING on all sides - Interior foil print

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ehsanziafati/warrior-women-playing-cards-by-headless-kings Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/129-warrior_women

Scans for each card can be seen at www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Corgi.html

The Black Diamond Tally Ho is the third deck in the Kings Wild Luxury Tally Ho series. The Black Diamonds utilizes The United States Playing Card Companies new foiling process, MetalLuxe to be one of the first custom decks to use the new technology. This will also be the first time Kings Wild has produced an all black court set.

These decks are both very expensive to produce and also very limited in their production number. 

Only 1000 Black Diamonds will be produced along with 50 Legacy Editions and 10 Tactical Legacy Editions.

Basic Production Details:

• Printed by The United States Playing Card Company in the USA
• Bicycle / Aristocrat paper stock
• Cards will have multiple metallic inks and the backs will have silver MetalLuxe Foil
• Embossed Finish

Limited Edition Details:

• Only 1000 Limited Editions will be available
• Tuck case will be premium soft touch black stock with black foiling and embossing

After seven years of designing some of the world's finest playing cards, Kings Wild is happy to release our very first two-deck set of PVC (plastic) playing cards.

Both decks feature the beautiful, 100% custom court cards of the Federal 52 2nd Edition with a greenback version and a never-before-seen redback version.

This set is specifically designed for the discerning table player and will surely take your poker games to the next level.

With this new PVC set, you will receive two decks of playing cards. One is the Green Edition of the Federal 52 Second Edition and a never-before-seen Red Edition. These decks are housed in a sturdy plastic case, with a soft-touch black title card with the Kings Wild logo.

900 Available to the public. All 900 sets signed by Jackson Robinson

The quest that was launched together with this product is over and the winners will be announced soon. You can read about it on www.stockholm17.com/room17

The cards are the same from Cartomancer variant, but they have been gilded in France. The deck has the numbered seal on the back. Numbers are assigned randomly and cannot be requested.

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• Extremely intricate Gold & Silver foil on both sides of each card, hot stamped over the printed artwork. This makes registration particularily difficult and it has never been attempted before.
• CMYK + metallic gold inks on both sides of the cards.
• Gold & Silver foil plus Embossing & Debossing for the tuck case, creating a unicue depth variation with an amazing effect in the light.
• Smooth handling despite the quantity of foil, making the deck perfectly playable.