Patternwork Playing Cards is a series of poker decks that fuse English
textile designs with Japanese patterns. Each deck has a unique pattern
on the tuck box, painstakingly designed by Jack Brutus Penny, featuring
culturally significant Japanese plants and insects. Patterns from all of
the decks appear in the clothing of the court cards. Each court depicts
a different human figure with an animal mask.
Petite Patternwork is a mini deck, with 33.5 x 46 mm cards and a Thyme & Tiger Beetles pattern on the tuck box. Its face card designs match the Dyed Patternwork decks, but Petite Patternwork only has two Jokers instead of four and has a different card back. The patterns on the card back are Thyme & Tiger Beetles and Lilies & Ladybirds (in blue/turquoise/white).
Listing includes:
- 1 x Wooden Box -- slides open. Has a 3D engraved antique gold finished plate on top and custom patterned padding inside.
- 1 x Die -- large (3 cm^2) 3D engraved metal die with a custom pattern.
- 1 x Petite Patternwork Deck
NOTE: This set has it's own custom cardboard box. The Wooden Box will ship inside the custom cardboard box, which will be then bubble wrapped and put into a larger EXTERIOR box for shipping.
Image 8 was taken from the Kickstarter campaign to show the card back design.