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Dear Karen and Alex,
I am a huge fan of your work and love all your tarot decks.
I would like to know if you ever consider the reprinting of your deck in a super special edition borderless? The cards are all gorgeous but the border takes away some of the glory. Many tarot private producers are eliminating the border for this reason. Please consider this for your future plans. Thank you for everything you do for us card lovers. We love you and wish all the best!
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Baba Store replied:
Hi Mira,

We have only done one deck without borders, /The Bohemian Gothic Tarot/. We liked the result but were not at all convinced that we want to do other decks without borders. It’s a bit like framing or not framing a picture, isn’t it? Personally, I don’t agree that any glory is taken away by a frame and I don’t think museums and galleries, for instance, are going to begin taking frames off pictures any time soon.  :)

Quite honestly, we also find that the fashion for no borders has waned a fair bit over the years – it was a real “thing” for a while but not so much recently.  I think it’s because people have realised that there are very definitely pros and cons to decks with and without borders. Mostly, we prefer the borders, partly because they protect the images (as cards get worn with use, borderless decks have some of the edges of the imagery affected by that wear). For a deck like The Alice Tarot, we deliberately designed the imagery so that it breaks the borders in a significant way, and the deck would lose all that meaning if it didn’t have those borders. For our more antique-looking decks, borderless would simply be a stylistic mistake that would take away from the overall look and feel.

There is another whole argument about the fact that printers don’t cut cards absolutely accurately, so if there are no borders, you have to allow for the fact that some imagery may be slightly cut in the manufacturing process. We allowed for this with The Bohemian Gothic Tarot but I’m not sure it was worth having to design the cards so that nothing significant in the image was close to the edge.

So – all in all I  think it’s unlikely we will be removing borders from any reprints but we will of course keep it in mind, and we always appreciate feedback, which we take on board. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment.

Hello!
I’m from Prague and recently living in Canada. I’m new to Tarot and I missed your printing of the Tarot of Prague and the Fantastic Managerie. I understand that you are not reprinting these in near future. I really love them. Is it possible to find them somewhere right now?
I would really love to work with them.
Thank you,
Hana Steinlaufova.

Please let me know when you will offer the bohemian Gothic tarot

I’m excited to see your new Bohemian Cat tarot deck! I love my Alice in Wonderland deck!