About this item
- The Golden Rider Tarot is a clone of the original Rider-Waite cards, repainted here in rich oils by Francois Tapernoux. His images have a softer blend of colours, but have blurred expressions and lack the line detail of the originals.
Specifications
Name
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Golden Rider Tarot
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Creators
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Francois Tapernoux
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Publisher
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AGM Müller 1996
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Deck Type
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Tarot Deck
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Cards
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78
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Major Arcana
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22
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Minor Arcana
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56
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Deck Tradition
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Rider-Waite-Smith
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Minor Arcana Style
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RWS-Based Scenes
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Suits
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Cups, Swords, Wands, Pentacles
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Court Cards
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Page, Knight, Queen, King
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The Fool
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is 0
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Strength
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is 8
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Justice
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is 11
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Card Language
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English
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Card Back
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Reversible
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Back Design
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Line design in shades of brown with a pink centre.
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Reviews
Rider-Waite-Smith deck, I finally found a deck that really speaks to
me.
I am an obsessive tarot collector and one of the
drives of that obsession was the desire to find a way to
connect with the Rider-Waite-Smith deck.
I have a
difficult relationship with this deck. I respect the ideas
of this deck and I think Pamela Colman-Smith must
have been an interesting character and a good artist
but I have one problem with
the RWS deck; I want to
like it but I don't.
I think the colours of the
standard deck are hideous, the "original" Rider-Waite is
too "washed out" and the Universal Waite, with
colouring by Mary Hanson-Roberts is to watery for my taste.
So I started to buy, use and love so-called
Rider-Waite clones. The Golden Tarot by Kat Black was my
favorite one but I also liked The Morgan-Greer, Tarot
Illuminati, Aquarian, Hanson-Roberts and many other decks that
stayed close to the RWS deck.
Why I did so? I wanted to
learn the Tarot studying the loads of literature that
use the RWS to explain the symbolism of the tarot.
I
knew about the existence of the "Golden Rider" deck by
Francois Tapernoux and I liked the pictures I had seen on
line but I thought I had enough RWS-decks I did not use
and I had read a blog where the reviewer was
disappointed about the artwork. because the pictures are made
using oil paint, the subtle fine lines were lost,
according to the reviewer.
I was wrong! I bought the deck
and I love everything about it! It is a recolouring
of the RWS but because of the blunt colours it seems
like a different deck! I love the colours! They are
vibrant with lots of earth tones and gold. I also love the
card stock, thin but not flimsy, the back of the cards,
a little "retro" I even love the borders on these
cards and I hate borders!
(I am a devoted card trimmer,
as soon as I open a deck with borders I take out my
scissors and start to cut of the borders from the cards.
But I won't trim this deck.)
Is there a downside to
this deck? I can think of only one minor thing. If a
tarot book mentions the symbolism of the colours in the
tarot, you may find that the colours in this deck are so
different it does not match with the meanings in that part
of the book. I don't mind that at al but it may be
inconvenient when you take this deck to a tarot course.
For
everyone who has the same awkward relation with the RWS
deck as I have, I strongly recommend this deck.
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