Bolt

Haenuli’s Wandering Spirit tarot is here and it’s just through and through full of gorgeous art and impressive manufacturing. There’s gold foil everything. The art is phenomenal. The textures and textiles used are exquisite.

The card deck revolves around the story of the girl and the skeleton, a recurring theme in Haenuli’s art that is a melancholy work of loss, grieving, consoling, and love. I always get a little sad when I think about it, but it’s a good story.

All the details of this project are so lovingly selected. The cards have gold foil, matte finish, and yellow gold glitter powder edges. The gold foil on the fronts and backs of the cards are covered by the matte finish, which makes it look soft and glowing. There’s gold foil and holo stickers, and the gold foil printing on the deck bag is very nice. The altar cloth is huge and isn’t like other common cloths that are bandana prints. It’s a super thick faux suede fabric. It’s a bit like a rayon-polyester texture on the underside, and is heavy weight. It weighs flat on just about everything, which is quite unlike other faux suede fabrics that are more rigid. The foil printing on the cloth is thick and durable, but isn’t raised or scratchy, though it is more of a rose gold color than gold.