WaterSword

WaterSword , vor 12 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 12 Tagen)

Omg! One of my obsessions!!!

Whenever I travel somewhere, as a souvenir, I buy the local design of playing cards. Even within the colour-regions there are many variations. I might be biased because I’m dutch, but the Dutch Cut is one of my favourites, because of the architecture on the aces!

In Italy every region has their own design! (Even within the ones shown in this map.)

WaterSword , vor 12 Tagen

In latin America spanish style cards are often used, and you might find some southern italian designs with italian-americans. But for the most part the rest of the world uses the standard “french” suits.

Also, nowadays if you ask for a deck of cards in most of the other places, you’re still likely to get a french-suited deck. Usually the american style (think of your typical bycicle brand card deck).

When I tried to buy a dutch style deck here in the Netherlands they didn't even have it at my local board game store! I had to order them online.

WaterSword , vor 12 Tagen

It’s not it’s own suit, we use french suits. But the design is it’s own thing, yeah!

WaterSword , vor 12 Tagen

The brazil thing seems logical, since Portugal uses french suited cards too.

WaterSword , vor 12 Tagen

Oops, maybe that was unclear. I meant even within each area of the map; blue, yellow, orange, green there are regional variations in designs!

WaterSword , vor 12 Tagen

Yeah that happens a lot in the rest of the world too. In Italy there are two main manufacturers and they each have their own slight variations upon every regional design. Here in NL I don’t even see the classic (carta mundi brand) dutch style anymore. It’s mostly American cards here now.

WaterSword , vor 16 Tagen

With the admins of feddit.de moving to feddit.org, will !europe move with them?