The Great Parade Tarot by Ian Cumpstey live on KS

[Bradius]

It showed as a broken link when I tried to post it as a Kickstarter. If one of the moderators could kindly fix this.

[hsbc]

YESSS and these are already nearly funded too

[hsbc]

[brownsl]

Thanks for the photos. The tuck looks a bit roughed up.

[Bradius]

My deck arrived today!

My tuck and cards all look fine to me. They aren't the best handling cards, but who cares. I love them! And yes, I did open this deck.

[brownsl]

My 3 decks came today also and they were wrapped very well. All the tucks were in great shape.

[hsbc]

These are now for sale

The Great Parade tarot:

Prices including P&P:

UK: £31.80
Europe: £38.55
Canada / Japan: £41.00
Australia / NZ: £42.45
USA: £41.75

A pack of 78 tarot cards by Ian Cumpstey with imagery closely following early Italian tarot styles.

The cards are all text-free, so the cards work as a visual iconographic language.

The original line artwork was all hand-drawn with pen and ink at the same size as the final printed cards. The colouring was done with gouache paint.

The cards are printed at a size of 62 x 100 mm on smooth black-core playing card stock, and are delivered in a custom printed tuck box. The cards were printed in Italy in 2022.

[manu]

New edition!

I don't collect tarot decks but I'm tempted.

If you are already familiar with the first edition of these cards and are mainly interested to hear "what's new", the changes for the new edition are summarised as follows: Some of the lower-numbered pip cards are fancier, with flower-leaf decorations or fancier pips (or both). There may be one or two minor differences in the linework elsewhere as well. Also there are new colours, and a different colouring method, a new box design, and a different printer.

The cards will be printed at a size of 62 x 100 mm on black-core cardstock, smooth finish. The cards will be delivered in a custom printed tuck box. The cards will be printed by Ivory Graphics (in England).

[Honeybee]

Same here Manu, very tempted but remaining disciplined regarding tarot

[GandalfPC]

Perhaps just one…

[Honeybee]

I am so glad that I weakened (got them along with my Ancient and Modern decks order)
I LOVE THEM
There was no explanation card for 'the parade' so thanks hsbc for the pic of that from V1

I still need help with the extra court character, there being 4 for each suit, so who are the extra, pictured below, along with the obvious K,Q, J (calling Felicity ) Just reading the V1 K/S page - are they extra Jacks?

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[shimmering]

Honeybee ... The court cards you've pictured are the jacks (called fante in italian, and valet in french, both corresponding to the playing card jack, these are sometimes called pages in english in a tarot context after AE Waite used that term in the influential english RWS tarot).

The four courts in descending rank order are kings (seated), queens (also seated), knights (on horseback), and jacks (standing). This way of distinguishing the ranks iconographically is the same for the traditional Italian tarots and also the French Tarot de Marseille (though French style also introduces text labels to the cards). It's also the same as for Italian suited playing cards but with the addition of the seated queen (Italian suited playing cards only have king, knight, jack). The jacks in The Great Parade have the notable feature that two of them are male (swords and clubs) and two are female (coins and cups). This two male and two female setup for the jacks is typical for early Bolognese pattern tarot and also Minchiate (Florentine tarot which used an expanded 97 card deck) .....

I'm glad you're happy with them!

[Honeybee]

Thanks Ian, most interesting info.
I am not just happy with them - they are simply beautiful

[Honeybee]

Cheat sheets for a Tarot novice
(Don't worry - they were removable stickers)

[KGthePrince]

I really do love tarot (not as a practitioner) and I've done a relatively good job at exercising restraint. I think I have around 50 decks. I feel like Gandalf has as at least double that

[GandalfPC]

I’m looking around to take a headcount and I think I’m sitting at around 50 as well - haven’t checked between the couch cushions…

[Honeybee]

I wonder how many Felicity has - I think Tarot used to be her only thing at first

[brownsl]

This is mine from 3 years ago. (I don't know how to post a link to my post in Show Us Your Cards!)

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[Honeybee]

Now that I have ventured down this offshoot of the rabbit hole - what decks would you guys recommend for the art work

[GandalfPC]

A few close at hand…

Green Glyphs:

[Eric Lee]

Now that I have ventured down this offshoot of the rabbit hole - what decks would you guys recommend for the art work

If your going for playing card designers who have done Tarot cards here's a few from the top of my head. Most of these should have their own UC thread as well.
Uusi Pagan otherworlds should be your first if you like their art.
Lorenzo's Keymaster Tarot should be a very close 2nd (Amazon sells the latest edition).
RJ Tomlinson did a few with his Titanic Risen Spirits being his best IMHO. He also did Romeo and Juliet and Oz tarot decks.
Jack Penny's Tarot deck KS just ended recently, so you may still get a chance if he opens a Late Pledge.

You can find the full details on Kickstarter to get a better idea of the decks.

Here's some other more interesting ones that I've come across.
Visconti di Modrone Tarot by Lo Sacrebo should be another one on your list if you like the historical art. Beautifully restored with gold and silver foil.
The Literary Tarot is another fun one
If you are a movie fan, RH Stewart's done a few interesting ones based on Star Wars, Alien and most recently 28 days later. You can see his KS Tarot tribute for Alien by looking for Strange Form.

[KGthePrince]

Bee here are some of my favorites (the names are listed in the order they appear from left to right):

1. ⁠Mio Im's Tarot by Von Zo
2. ⁠Carmena Tarot by Laetitia Barbier/Lou Benesch
3. ⁠Terra Volatile (Collector 'Darkest' Edition) by Credo quia Absurdum
4. ⁠Yokai Yochi by buboplague
5. ⁠Ephemere by TrueBlack
6. ⁠Materia Prima by Uusi
7. ⁠The Somnia Tarot: Illustrated Edition by Nicolas Bruno
8. ⁠The CARNIVAL at the END of the WORLD by Kahn & Selesnick
9. ⁠Void Tarot by Sarai Nissan
10. ⁠Sirena by Mr. Friborg Tarot
11. ⁠Legendarium Tarot by Montenzi
12. ⁠Tazama African Tarot by Abusua Pa

[GandalfPC]

Yokai Yochi by buboplague is tops

[Honeybee]

Wow, thanks everyone for what is going to be a lot of fun for me to research. You have all gone to a bit of trouble - I am touched.
I have already checked out G's Yokai Yochi because his had me thinking it was a joke - No joke, it KS funded 27x's its goal!
350gsm art paper sounds very thick - I am guessing Tarot readers like thick hard wearing cards

[Honeybee]

Just looking at the Green Glyphs - is there a Chinese rip off of these? I seem to be getting too good a deal from an Aussie ebayer
$10us a deck with free shipping if I buy two.