![]() Being Victorian England there is a fairly large amount of earth-based colours - deep browns, mahogany, copper, tobacco, offset with smoky greys, verdant greens and the golden glow of lamps and lanterns.īeing a commercial artist Ciro Marchetti has an appealing and accessible style – idealised reality in its most attractive settings. The artists palette is naturalistic – these images, but for a few, have their foundation in real life and the artist has gone to great lengths to maintain the sense of reality the images convey. These illustrations of finely detailed, and all the subtleties and nuances of these carefully constructed images have been preserved in the printing. The cards have a highly polished and smooth finish which makes them extremely easy to handle and very smooth to shuffle. This high quality metallic gleam is made to take constant handling and does not brush off or tarnish as the cards are used. The card stock is superb – strong and sturdy, yet flexible, with gleaming silver-gilt edges. ![]() The cards measure 70 x 105 mm – this makes them a little larger than many Lenormand decks (which they most closely resemble), and a fair bit smaller than many tarot decks… perhaps marginally larger than an average deck of playing cards. ![]() He also invests each image with appropriate detail and finely nuanced expression. He maintains that the essential traditional image of the cards, while giving them a fresher and more vibrant appearance. Indeed the artist has invested a good deal of research in creating this deck. These cards may sound grim, and they are certainly intended to reflect some of the less idealised aspects of Victorian England (where the deck is set), and our own modern lives. The additional cards are titled Poverty, Toil and Labour, and Community. Articles of mis en scene are important to a reading, and the placement of cards in relation to a significator is very important.Ĭiro Marchetti has added three new cards to the traditional 36-card Kipper, bringing the total number of cards in the Fin De Siècle Kipper to 39. Heavy emphasis is placed on the direction the characters in the cards are facing, or where the action is directed. However the Kipper cards are generally read in pairs, and otherwise adhere to most Lenormand conventions and layouts. Again, the Kipper deck differs from the Lenormand deck in that it doesn't have a lot of extraneous symbolism and correspondences printed alongside the central illustration. Each card has a number which simply lists it order in the deck, and a title which hints at the meaning of the illustration. However the Kipper deck, unlike the Lenormand deck, is primarily focused on people rather than objects and events. Kipper decks, like their French counterpart the Lenormand deck, generally has 36 cards. Although this is about to change with the release of Ciro Marchetti’s Fin De Siècle Kipper deck.Ĭiro Marchetti Is the veteran illustrator of some of the most popular tarot and Lenormand decks on the market today – the Gilded Tarot, Legacy of the Divine Tarot, Gilded Reverie Lenormand Deck, and the Oracle of Visions among others. That is to say, in comparison to tarot cards and even Lenormand cards – they are not a popularly used oracle/divination deck. ![]() Outside of their country of origin, Germany, Kipper cards are not widely known or used. Fin de Siecle Kipper Review by medusawink
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