India
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Divine Art Playing Cards - Relaunch
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by Simon Wintle
Divine Art Playing Cards by Sunish Chabba & Guru Playing Card Company, 2016.
Ganjifa™
A colourful pack of round cards with Ganjifa designs by Asha Industries, Mumbai, India, 2002.
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.
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.
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
Playing cards for the Bombay Market
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by Paul Symons
An interesting pack of playing cards with illustrated Indian aces made "Specially for the Bombay Market", c.1915.
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.
SiRen International
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by Matt Probert
“SiRen International” playing cards based on traditional style of Indian miniature painting, 1998
Star Stack
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by Simon Wintle
Star Stack playing cards feature illustrations of famous astronomers and important astronomical constellations.
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.
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.
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