Sherlock Holmes Tarot

By Matt White

Sherlock Holmes Tarot Inspired by Conan Doyle and no doubt released to capitalise on the recent success of the BBC Sherlock TV series. John Matthews along with artist Wil Kinghan have produced the Sherlock Holnmes deck. This 2014 edition by Connections takes the stories of Sherlock Homes and weaves them into the Tarot.  For some…

Smallest Tarot in the World

By Matt White

Smallest Tarot in the World Published by Lo Scarabo Very much a gimmick deck. The cards just the 22 majors are only 1cm by 2cm (if that)! To small to be seen as they are smaller than most coins. The images are from the Tarot of the Gnome. The original deck was released in 2002.…

Spill Tarot

By Matt White

Spill Tarot This comes in a heavy duty fabric lined case which seems to be collect dust.  Published in 2009 as part of the SPILL festival of performance. This was an artistic collaboration of a number of artists overseen by Robert Pacciti. Different artists were given different major arcana a cards to photograph as performance,…

SteamPunk Tarot

By Matt White

SteamPunk Tarot Will this be a short lived fad, I am not sure but this Steampunk deck by Llewellyn is an interesting pack Steampunk is too new as a single word for my spell checker though this deck dates from 2012 so interest has been there a few years now. The book is by Barbara…

Stretch Tarot

By Matt White

Stretch Tarot This is a mixed media deck published in April 2016, and privately published via a Kickstarter campaign. The cards mostly follow a Rider Waite design template and a lot of the cards use 1910-1930’s b/w and Victorian parlour images photo’s to aid with the pictorial presentation. The cards are easy to use though…