Ingerid Blakstad Tarot

Creator(s): Ingerid Blakstad
Date: 1998
Country: Norway
Publisher: self-published
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:
Type: Marseilles
Reference: artist's page
 




Notes:
The deck is based on tarot card fabric collages. The different materials and stitching used for each card imbue the entire deck with an 'textured' look. An eye motif appears on every card except for The Fool, which  just bears the words “The missing Fool”. 

  The deck was issued in a limited edition of 1,000 copies -- 100 signed, and 900 unsigned. The cards are encased in box with a ribbon tie.

Voyager Tarot

Creator(s): James Wanless, Ken Knutson
Date: 1986, 2008
Country: USA
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-1-59233-322-6 
Type: Other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 646, 647



Notes:
Ken Knutson created the photo-collage cards under the direction of James Wanless. The names of two of the suits are changed: Swords become Crystals and Pentacles become Worlds. Wands represent spiritual qualities, Cups emotional, Crystals mental and Worlds are for physical or wordly qualities.

The  court cards are sage, child, woman and man. The Minors have, in adition to tarot-titles, descriptive titles. Several of the Major Arcana have been renamed : Justice became Balance; Temperance changed to Art;  Devil's Play instead of The Devil; Judgment is Time-Space; The World became The Universe.

The back design shows a cross-section, composite view of DNA .

The Voyager tarot was first published by Merrill-West Publishing in 1986. Mine is the later, smaller edition from 2008 by Fair Winds Press.

The Tarot of Curiosities

Creator(s): Nicole Monforti
Date: 2012
Country: USA
Publisher: headcase press
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:  
Type: other
Reference: headcasepress





Notes:
The Tarot of Curiosities is a 22 card deck of the Major Arcana cards. The cards are digital prints of original cut paper collages.

The cards are primarily black and white with color accents in some of the images.

The deck is packaged in a black metal box and includes a LWB.

Dali Tarot

Creator(s): Salvador Dali
Date: 1984, 2004
Country: Germany
Publisher: Königsfurt Urania
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-3-898756433    

Type: Mixed
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol.III, pp 578, 580-581

Notes:
This deck was first published by Distribucions d’Art Surrealista and Comos Naipes of Spain in 1984. It consists of collage compositions which incorporate the works of other artists. Amanda Lear claimed to have assisted Dali in the completition of the collages.

Dali adds his own touch to each design by using washes of color and semi-abstract shapes and adding his abstract signature onto the cards, incorporating them into each design.

The Major Arcana bear German titles on top and Spanish titles below and are numbered I through XXI from the Magician to the World. Justice is numbered VIII and Strength is XI.

Hebrew letters are assigned to the cards starting with Aleph at the Magician through Resh at Judgment, and Tau is assigned to The World. The Fool is unnumbered and has the Hebrew letter Shin.  Planetary and Zodiacal associations are somewhat different from those usually found.

The four suit emblems are painted into the designs. Wands are painted as green staves with small leafs,  Swords are depicted as blue double-edged broadswords, Cups are painted as yellow lotus-patterned chalices and Coins are illustrated as flat disks of yellow with  pentagrams.

The Court Cards are titled in Spanish. The Suits Bastos, Copas, Espadas and Oros refer to Staffs, Cups, Swords and Discs, respectively. And the Court Cards Sota, Caballero, Reina and Rey are Page, Knight, Queen and King.