China
Playing cards were probably invented during the Tang dynasty around the 9th century, as a result of the usage of woodblock printing … See more

Contemporary playing cards are grouped into three broad categories based on the suits they use: French, Latin, and Germanic. Latin suits are used in the closely related Spanish and Italian formats. The Swiss-German suits are distinct enough to … See more

The Unicode standard for character encoding defines 8 characters (symbols) for card suits in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, … See more

Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds the Albert Field Collection of Playing Cards, an archive of over 6,000 individual decks from over 50 countries and dating back to the 1550s. In 2018 the university digitized over 100 of its decks. See more

Today the process of making playing cards is highly automated. Large sheets of paper are glued together to create a sheet of pasteboard; the glue may be black or dyed another dark color to … See more

Airlines
Airlines have produced playing cards to give to passengers since the 1920s, with the practice reaching … See more

• Maltese playing cards. Bonello, Giovanni (January 2005). Michael Cooper (ed.). "The Playing-card" (PDF). Journal of the International Playing … See more