Enchanted

The archive's reviewer did not know where to start, the book or the deck, and that confusion is the product's design: Amy Zerner's Enchanted Tarot through St. Martin's is a matched set of genuine production luxury, hardcover book with full-page color plates facing a deck of Zerner's fabric-collage arcana. Zerner works in stitched and appliqued textile, textile-collage as a fine-art practice, and the sumptuous surfaces are the actual medium, not a print effect. With Monte Farber's text tradition behind the Zerner-Farber partnership's many sets, the Enchanted established their signature: divination packaged as a complete, giftable, beautiful object with thoughtful guidance built in. It suits textile artists and fiber people, gift-buyers who want the whole presentation, readers who work best with a strong companion book at hand, and collectors of the Zerner-Farber line. Minimalists and box-tossers should know the packaging here is half the artwork, and treat it accordingly.