Flowers as Women

[porphyry]

Having just switched to Chrome, I was cleaning out my bookmarks and found this book of engravings of flowers given form as women, if that interests anyone:

http://www.abocamuseum.it/bibliothecaantiqua/Book_View.asp?Id_Book=475&Display=P&From=S&Id_page=-1

Comments

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

I've got this as a set of cards: http://www.magic-realist.com/Victorian_flower_oracle/. Very beautiful, I think. So is their other Grandville oracle: http://www.fantasticmenagerie.com/

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

If you collect that sort of thing, I suppose you know the Baba Studio? They have an LJ account.

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a collector and certainly not into reading cards, but some of their decks are just too beautiful. (I don't care much about the cats and the Prague stuff though.)

And yes, thank you, I do know their blog. I even exchanged a few words with Karen, when the "Victorian Romantic Tarot" came out.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to buy their Dracula told with cats book. The images on their book bags are beautiful, but they don;t look large enough.

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

Well, I have got the two Grandville decks, the Fairytale and the Victorian Romantic Tarot. Others didn't much interest me.

Coming to think of it, I seem to be collecting tarots after all: Because apart from these four decks, I've also got the classical Rider-Waite tarot, Aleister Crowley's, one made by Dalí, a Shakespeare themed one, one made from Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, and one by Neil Gaiman, Ruth Pollack and Dave McKean of Sandman, erm, fame. lso a horrible Egyptian one, that I accidentally bought (in a museum shop = my shopping mall). My parents tell me that my grandmother was interested in reading cards, but I swear to me it's just a set of funny pictures.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I bet the Dali and Victorian romantic decks are awfully nice; I too once had a Shakespeare/Renaissance themed one, but for the life of me I don't know where it's gone after so many years and too many moves.

I had a good friend in college who was interested in reading Tarot cards (she even took "classes" to learn), but I shied away from her offer to read them for me... Catholic superstition again, I suppose. :) Sort of like Ouija boards; something about those, too, spooked me a bit.