Night in white Satin
Good luck with the rounded corners. Mine, (still square cornered) but handled with ease started to delaminate from even gentle use. No way I could riffle shuffle the pack, they'd come apart.
I have retired them to the historical reference section.
Seems like a lot of these self published packs are laminated & don't hold up to riffle shuffling or even an attempt of gentle hand over hand type shuffling. Though they are historically relevant & I want them in my collection they should be serviceable.
We need independent card publishers that put out the durable product, comparable to a finished US games type pack in durability but less plastic. Who can do that?
Durable, beautiful, done.
Hello Inconnu,
My Madenié facsimile decks are not laminated (I mean not plastic film added on it).
It's just a satin aspect spray.
If you look at Nicolas Conver deck from BnF Paris (See their Image Bank) you will see that their original exemplary (dated post 1805) shows on pips cards (particularly Swords and Sticks cards) traces of heavy use deterioration (black colour is faded).
All decks who are used are slowly but surely getting older and tired.
I will always prefer a used/tired deck rather that a "plastic" deck where no life is showing up of it.
Plastic/laminated decks anyway peeled and turn yellow appearance after some years.
I am open to any suggestion for improving my reproductions of course.
Best
Yves
