HECHO A MANO · SMALL BATCH · NUMBERED
Artesano Cards makes playing cards the slow way: faces illustrated in ink and gouache, backs pressed on a letterpress older than your grandfather's grudges, edges gilded one deck at a time. Every box is numbered because every box is different.
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paso uno
Each court card begins as a pencil sketch. Our queens have opinions; our jacks have alibis. The aces take the longest — emptiness is hard.
paso dos
Backs are letterpressed in two passes on cotton stock — terracotta, then olive. You can feel the bite of the plate under your thumb.
paso tres
Edges gilded, deck numbered, box sealed with wax. If a card isn't right, it doesn't ship — the woodstove eats well here.