Where it comes from
Old Roots
The long history under the deck, from Italian card tables to the modern revival.
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A Short History of Tarot
Six hundred years from a luxury card game to the candlelit table you're sitting at now.
A Game at the Table
Long before the cards were a mirror, they were a game, and across half of Europe, they still are.
The Painted Deck
From gold-leaf Milan to Pamela Colman Smith's pen, the tarot as five centuries of painting.