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ZDL uploaded 1 new photo to Playing Cards albumThis is my second, believe it or not, 100% hand-made deck of playing cards. There are 131 cards in it total: 26 cards repeated five times, and one special card (the one at the top left in the photo) to round it out. When I say hand-made, I mean exactly that. Hand-made. Someone hand-inked (in three colours) 125 pairs of calligraphic characters, and six pairs of decorative symbols, in three ink colours onto so-called "rice paper", adding little decorative elements here and there. He then pasted that onto black card stock, innundated all that with tung oil, then hand-cut it into a deck of playing cards. The game played with this deck is one of the myriad of Rummy-family games in China.
Oct 14 '195 1hairylarry likes this
Oct 14 '19hairylarryBeautiful.
Oct 15 '19ZDLThis is the other handmade deck. Many more cards with one set of cards done entirely in red while the rest have a single red card. There is no stand-alone decorative card either. The card backing is red (which is the most common card backing colour here).
Oct 15 '19ZDLThis is the picture I should have used for the new deck, showing the black card backs.
Oct 15 '19hairylarryBecause these are handmade they are intrinsically more valuable than anything mass produced.
Oct 15 '19ZDLAbsolutely. And it's increasingly difficult to find handmade goods like these. :(You need to sign in to comment
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