so it begins.
my sister meg and i are working on a new tarot deck. after the rather daunting popularity of the eighties tarot, we are doing something much simpler and maybe a little less silly. it is in progress, and parts of it will appear here on notsoswift.com: the knitting tarot.
i say "parts" will appear here because, while i think it will be fun to play with megan's illustrations and my text in blog format, the deck will be created, physically, using metal engravings of the drawings, and printed on the pratt-albion iron hand printing press -- we have named her ludovine -- that ben and i have fallen in love with. ludovine will arrive early this winter, possibly late fall. the knitting tarot will not be the first project we print, but it's certainly on the hot list.
while the primary illustrations for each card will appear online, the bells and whistles, designwise, probably won't. the text on each card will be set separately from the engravings as well, so it won't appear with the corresponding online images. but the blog will provide a running account of cards as they get fleshed out.
the link to the page featuring the in-progress the knitting tarot deck will be located in the sidebar to the right. the notecards that megan designed, located on the sidebar still, will likely stay up through the holidays, but probably not much longer than that. i'm not entirely sure, as that's meg's call. but since people have recently commented on them and said they'd like to order, i would definitely do so sooner than later.
how fast will the blog entries for the knitting tarot show up? pretty slowly. i think the eighties tarot took us a good year. so, don't get too excited yet, but remember -- the sidebar is where to click to find out what's new. the text and illustrations for the deck will not appear on this page.
as time goes on, if you like the images and text and think you would like a handpressed deck of your own, just drop me a line, and we'll see what we can do!