GALLERY LENORMAND - 2nd Edition

MADE FROM CLASSIC PAINTINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

This project started with a desire to make a Lenormand deck that displays antique paintings and illustrations and allows the images to fill up the whole card - no borders. Also, I wanted to include lots of extra cards so that the deck would be more flexible and provide more options and variety than a typical Lenormand deck.

THE LENORMAND MEANINGS ARE EASY TO IDENTIFY FOR SMOOTH READINGS.

THERE ARE ALTERNATE CHOICES FROM SOME OF THE CARD POSITIONS. SO YOU WILL BE TASKED WITH GOING THROUGH THE DECK AND PICKING WHICH OF THE 36 CARDS YOU WISH TO USE AND SETTING ASIDE THE EXTRAS.

4 CHILD CARDS, 3 GENTLEMAN CARDS, 3 WOMAN CARDS, 3 DOG CARDS, 4 HOUSE CARDS, 2 SHIP CARDS, 2 BIRDS CARDS, 2 GARDEN CARDS, 2 TREES, & 2 FISH CARDS.

The extra people cards are meant to give the user extra options. Generally, most people would use 2 significator cards - Gentleman and Woman, but this deck offers extra choices for flexibility. You have cards that could reflect a younger or older couple or LGBT couples. If, for example, you want to do a reading for a group of people, say, several family members gathered together, you could pick out certain cards to use as significators to represent each individual: spouse, siblings, children, and parents.

The cards come with rounded corners and no borders.

Unfortunately, the deck doesn't come with cards sorted into an orderly fashion. They will arrive in whatever random order the printers at The Game Crafter put them in.

The Game Crafter prints with earth friendly, soy-based toner ink.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LENORMAND CARDS

In 1799, a 36 card oracle deck was published as part of Das Spiel der Hoffnung (The Game of Hope), a game of chance designed by Johann Kaspar Hechtel of Nuremberg. The deck was named after Marie Anne Lenormand a famous cartomancer from France who had died 44 years prior. In the years that followed many illustrated and block printed decks came out of France, Germany, and Austria carrying her name mostly known as Petit Lenormand or simply Lenormand cards. Over time the titles of the 36 cards, the order of them, and the playing card associations became standardized.

ALL OF THE IMAGES USED TO MAKE THESE CARDS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

WEBSITE: GALLERY LENORMAND