The Rosewater Lenormand and Fortune Telling Cards are here! This rose-tinted adventure utilizes sumptuous paintings, beautiful photographs, and wonderful drawings to illustrate those famous Lenormand symbols – plus a few extra! A deck of 50 cards, it includes all the standard Lenormand symbols, but also includes 14 extra cards like the Cats, the Lightning, the …
The Houses of Lenormand is a 36 card deck designed to facilitate the use of random Houses in a Lenormand card reading. It can also be used to lay out a Grand Tableau and easily find the House each card is located with. It is made to serve as a tool in addition to another …
The Daityanus Tarot is such an amazing find! First published in Germany in 1920 in the book Der Tarot by Ernst Kurtzahn, I can find no record of this deck ever being published in the form of actual cards. It is a beautiful synthesis of the French Etteilla Tarots and the more traditional Marseilles-style decks, all done in …
The Visconti Lenormand: If Mme. Lenormand had lived in the 16th century, this would be her deck! An original creation, the Visconti Lenormand is a re-imagining of Mme. Lenormand’s fortune-telling deck created using art from master painters of the 16th century. The golden background of the Cary-Yale Visconti itself is used to provide a beautiful …
A wonderful play of color and light, the Water Lilies Lenormand is an Impressionist’s dream! Featuring paintings from such masters as Monet, Van Gogh, Cassatt, and Renoir, this deck may be the most beautiful Lenormand yet. This 39-card deck (traditional Lenormand cards plus extra Gentleman, Lady and Star cards) with storage box from my new site, Indie …
The Sola Busca Tarot: created in the later years of the 1400s, by an unknown Italian artist. It is one of the first fully-illustrated tarot decks, and it has been postulated that Pamela Coleman-Smith based some of her designs for the Rider-Waite Tarot on these illustrations. This is a stunning, full-color reproduction of 78 cards …
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The Bohemian Tarot of Papus: drawn by Gabriel Goulinat under the direction of the renowned occultist Papus for the illustration of his book The Divinatory Tarot, this deck done in beautiful line-drawings brings together the occult work of Etteilla, Levi Christian, and Eliphas Levi. First published in 1909, it helped launch a new era of … Continue reading
The Scarlet Lenormand is a reproduction of a beautiful Lenormand deck dated to the 1880s. For those who take special meaning from the colors of the playing card inserts, this deck is the perfect find! As each card is outlined in either red or black, according to the insert, the colors are quick and easy … Continue reading
The Lismon Etteilla Tarot is a beautiful deck, largely based on the Grand Etteilla. It is a variant published shortly afterwards, sometime around 1838. There has been another self-published version of this deck, which I have and enjoy, but feel that it does not quite capture the spirit of the original. This is my attempt … Continue reading
The Houses of the Master Method is a 36 card deck designed to facilitate the use of random Houses in a Lenormand or cartomancy reading. It can also be used to lay out a Grand Tableau and easily find the House each card is located with. It is made to serve as a tool in … Continue reading
Hello everyone! I wanted to let all my followers know that I’ve been shopping around to a few other printers, and have finally found one that offers the quality, speed, and service that is so necessary in a small-scale operation like this one – which means that I’ll no longer be working with the Gamecrafter, … Continue reading
The Wüst Lenormand is a reproduction of a Lenormand deck first published in 1860. This deck features three editions: one with verses in German, one with playing card inserts, and one with space left to write in your own verses or meanings. The original deck featured the German verses, making that version most faithful to … Continue reading
The Antique Lenormand is a reproduction of a Lenormand deck first published in 1892. This deck features three editions: one with verses in German, one with playing card inserts, and one with space left to write in your own verses or meanings. The original deck featured the German verses, making that version most faithful to … Continue reading
The Katerina Lenormand, known by playing card historians as the Will of Lenormand, is a reproduction of a Russian deck published in the late 1800s. It’s certainly not a typical Lenormand deck, though it features 36 cards; though many of the familiar symbols are present there’s also fun new faces like the Rooster, Lobster, and … Continue reading
The Nastasya Lenormand, known by playing card historians as the Lenormand 1894, is a reproduction of a Russian deck published in 1894. It’s certainly not a typical Lenormand deck, though it features 36 cards; though many of the familiar symbols are present there’s also fun new faces like the Rooster, Lobster, and Cat. Its inserts … Continue reading
A Historical Retrospective 