schmedrake
Thanks, Rodney.
The name came down to the fact that I liked the sound of "Deck of 1000 Spreads." I liked the meter and length of it. (I'm weird that way.) It rolls easily off the tongue and allowed me to create a short URL like 1000spreads.com. So the title is all my fault. I know the actual number of combinations is probably near, if not over, a million. But a million is a big number to wrap your head around and, for many people, not believable (not to mention an overwhelming thought for beginners...while this deck was created for tarotists of all levels, the color coding and "system" was largely created to facilitate learning the craft.) Besides, people rarely complain about getting more than what's indicated on the package of something...haha. But you're right. The number of combinations is considerably higher. But that was my thinking behind naming it, and the thinking had a strong marketing slant to it...catchy, easy to remember, rolls off tongue, short URL...because I'm marketing writer by trade.
I may be speaking out of turn, but I think that the packaging is because of the dies and the tooling of the printing presses. It's not economically advantageous to do a new box and kit for every product, because that requires new dies and retooling. You'll notice that, with the exception of my cards, all Llewellyn cards are the same size. This standardization is conservative from a business standpoint, yet the box size allows flexibility for expanded use.
And you'll read about this in the book, but the deck is oversized so that the position name peeks out above your card. So it's as wide as a "normal" tarot card, but longer so you can line your cards up all pretty on it. This obviously doesn't work for every deck (apologies to my Rohrig), but as I was creating the prototype, I tested it against a large selection of cards and this seemed to be the best size for *most* decks...those of Lo Scarabeo, Llewellyn, Schiffer and US Games standard sizes.
I'm glad you got it and hope you'll have fun playing with it! And if you come up with interesting ways to use it, you can email me from the deck's site (www.1000spreads.com) and send me a pic and description of how you're using it. I already have a couple of ideas up there that don't appear in the book but that people thought of right out of the box. I didn't have that URL built at the time of printing (last Fall) so it will hopefully make it into the book in any second edition that may be printed. However people can get to that site from the URL that WAS printed in the book, so all is well.
The name came down to the fact that I liked the sound of "Deck of 1000 Spreads." I liked the meter and length of it. (I'm weird that way.) It rolls easily off the tongue and allowed me to create a short URL like 1000spreads.com. So the title is all my fault. I know the actual number of combinations is probably near, if not over, a million. But a million is a big number to wrap your head around and, for many people, not believable (not to mention an overwhelming thought for beginners...while this deck was created for tarotists of all levels, the color coding and "system" was largely created to facilitate learning the craft.) Besides, people rarely complain about getting more than what's indicated on the package of something...haha. But you're right. The number of combinations is considerably higher. But that was my thinking behind naming it, and the thinking had a strong marketing slant to it...catchy, easy to remember, rolls off tongue, short URL...because I'm marketing writer by trade.
I may be speaking out of turn, but I think that the packaging is because of the dies and the tooling of the printing presses. It's not economically advantageous to do a new box and kit for every product, because that requires new dies and retooling. You'll notice that, with the exception of my cards, all Llewellyn cards are the same size. This standardization is conservative from a business standpoint, yet the box size allows flexibility for expanded use.
And you'll read about this in the book, but the deck is oversized so that the position name peeks out above your card. So it's as wide as a "normal" tarot card, but longer so you can line your cards up all pretty on it. This obviously doesn't work for every deck (apologies to my Rohrig), but as I was creating the prototype, I tested it against a large selection of cards and this seemed to be the best size for *most* decks...those of Lo Scarabeo, Llewellyn, Schiffer and US Games standard sizes.
I'm glad you got it and hope you'll have fun playing with it! And if you come up with interesting ways to use it, you can email me from the deck's site (www.1000spreads.com) and send me a pic and description of how you're using it. I already have a couple of ideas up there that don't appear in the book but that people thought of right out of the box. I didn't have that URL built at the time of printing (last Fall) so it will hopefully make it into the book in any second edition that may be printed. However people can get to that site from the URL that WAS printed in the book, so all is well.
