Tarot of Northern Shadows

The record

My Tarot of Northern Shadows came yesterday, and because I can’t find much information about this deck I thought I would post on my feelings. First off it measures 12cm x 7cm, the card stock is good and flexible (if you have the Tarot of the Old Path – it’s the same in size and quality) – The artwork seems to have been done in watercolours, its very good – Sylvia Gainsford has captured expressions on close up faces and even eye colour is evident in some of the cards, bodies, animals etc are all in proportion and I can’t find a badly illustrated card in the deck. There is some nudity (8 cards altogether) male and female in the Majors but none in the Minors. If you dislike borders and lots of white on your decks then you probably won’t like the Northern Shadows. The images are set in the middle of the card with pure white backgrounds, under the images are the card titles in English and German. The size of image you get is still big enough to be readable and you get the impact of the whole image with nothing to distract you, unless the white backgrounds distract. You wouldn’t be able to trim this deck down without destroying the image on the back of the cards. I didn’t have the book t

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