India
Bharata Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Bharata Playing Cards - Series 2, based on Indian folk art, published by Sunish Chabba, 2018.
Bharata Major Arcana Tarot
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by Simon Wintle
Bharata Major Arcana Tarot by Ishan Trivedi & Sunish Chabba, 2018. Inspired by Indian art forms.
Divine Art Playing Cards - Relaunch
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by Simon Wintle
Divine Art Playing Cards by Sunish Chabba & Guru Playing Card Company, 2016.
Guru Ganjifa
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by Simon Wintle
Sunish Chabba is working on an initiative to revive traditional Ganjifa, the card game most popular 17th Century India.
SiRen International
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by Matt Probert
“SiRen International” playing cards based on traditional style of Indian miniature painting, 1998
Math Stack
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by Simon Wintle
“Math Stack” playing cards designed by Diana Stanciulescu, illustrating and explaining 36 important mathematical constants, published by EduStack in India
Star Stack
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by Simon Wintle
Star Stack playing cards feature illustrations of famous astronomers and important astronomical constellations.
Indian Ganjifa
‘Ganjifa’ playing cards made in Sheopor in the North of Madhya Pradesh province in Central India. The Ganjifa game probably developed from 13th century games played by Mamluk immigrants from China.
Use Rubber At Night by Shantanu Suman
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by Adam Wintle
Shantanu Suman has created a pack to help educate people in India about safe sex and especially targeted at India's truck drivers. The artwork is bright and bold, inspired by the popular truck art.
Teen Patti Playing Cards by Anjali DSouza
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by Adam Wintle
Anjali DSouza, an illustrator from Chennai, India has designed a pack of cards using Indian truck art and the Indian folk art as inspiration.
Red Hot Chili Peppers playing cards by Gurleen Kaur
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by Adam Wintle
This illustration project by Gurleen Kaur features images inspired by the band the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Each card had illustrations from their albums and the ace, jack, queen and king are each band members.
Chitrashala Press
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by Simon Wintle
Chitrashala Press produced some charming children's pictorial alphabet cards for early learning purposes in the 1940s.
Dilkhus playing cards for India
Van Genechten was one of the most competent cardmakers in Turnhout and they produced almost every kind of foreign pack for clients all around the world.
Wild Life
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by Simon Wintle
World Wide Fund for Nature-India Playing Cards, featuring 53 different colour paintings of a variety of wildlife including birds, butterflies, mammals and reptiles.
Dasavatara Ganjifa from India
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by Simon Wintle
Chromo-lithograph Ganjifa cards by the Chitrasala Press, around 1950. Ten suits of twelve cards, each suit is based on one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu.
Swiss Mogul Cards, 1880-1890
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by Simon Wintle
English type 'Mogul' playing cards manufactured in Switzerland by John Müller for export to India, c.1880-1890.
