From the hand-painted cards of T’ang Dynasty China to paper-and-plastic Pokémon trading cards, the history of playing cards spans cultures, epochs, and continents. When The Walt Disney Company ...

Tonight, despite the digital age, sending holiday cards is still quite popular. An artist in Greenland hand paints all of her cards and has been in business now for nearly 25 years. Karen Meyers ...

In practice, prohibiting cards was hard to enforce, and cardplaying thrived regardless. In private, such games were popular among the aristocracy, who had their decks intricately hand-painted and ...

This style of hand-painted cards first originated in Persia and came to India with the Mughals. They were adapted to the storyline of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, with Hindu deities being ...

The deck of elaborately hand-painted cards, likely completed by fresco artist Bonifacio Bembo, was intended as a simple card game called tarocchi. “Originally, they were ways to commemorate this ...