This is the English Pattern as it has never been seen before. Every aspect has been carefully preserved and meticulously enhanced. The idea was never to change the playing card but to unlock the deep potentialities of its rich imaginings. The entire deck is composed of free-hand renderings, finished in meticulous detail and manufactured to a standard expected by serious card players. These are the characters of the Royal Household with whom you may play to smite thy foes. Gallery »

Origin of Playing Cards

It is not known from where playing cards originated, nor has it been easy to document their introduction to European culture. Playing cards appeared in Europe almost everywhere at once in the latter half of the 14th century. Various explanations have been proposed for their arrival, but none have pieced together the entire story. Read More »

Brett A. Jones

When it was suggested to Brett that a way to explore his artistic talent might be to design a deck of playing cards, he shrugged with vague disinterest and never mentioned the subject again. Then on some evening, forgotten when, he dragged himself from his self imposed hell just long enough to see the rich imaginings that lay beneath the lines and and simple patterns of the English Standard. Slowly, he turned, and then sank into an all consuming artistic morass from which only now he has finally emerged. Read More »