You can buy all sorts of items from the UK with amusing slogans and images of cards, cats and chess, tee shirt clothes, a chess bow tie, a playing card blouse, and sets of pencils with playing cards for friends who play bridge, or whist or poker or casinos or any card games.
Playing card jacket in window of Dojo shop near Bond Street. Photo taken July 1st 2023. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
This jacket has a green background, white background cards, red hearts, red diamonds. black aces, black spades and other circular designs with centres in black, or red, or turquoise. It would do with many colours., black, white, red, a mid green or a blueish green
turquoise green and could be worn with black shoes and belts and hats and bags or for summer in white, or for jollity and liveliness in red.
The Dojo website tells you that they sell many types of goods as well as clothing. Postage is free. You have 14 days, two weeks,
as we say in Britain, a fortnight, to return the goods or exchange them.
Check with them for their latest opening hours and online conditions.
Do jo
I remember it as do a good job. Do - jo for Dojo. The word comes from the Japanese dao or way, do-jo meaning place of the way, in other words, place of instruction or learning centre. A dojo used to be a school (for adults?) attached to a Buddhist temple.
Advantages and Disadvantages Of Playing Card Patterns
The pattern might suit you if you want to pair it with red hearts. Or to start a conversation. Or to find new friends or old friends who are also interested in card games such as whist or bridge.
Props and Additions
Playing card designs can be found on tablecloths sold by playing card sellers and card game suppliers. They also sell stationery and crockery with card patterns. In the past I have bought pencils, notepads, cups and saucers, green felt card table cloths, black felt square card table cloths with playing card decoration on the corners.
Playing card design. Elizabethan Staffordshire Fine bone china. England. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
Saucer for small coffee cup. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
I bought one set of a tablecloth and cards from a friend whose stepmother had died. You might buy from players who have items which they rarely use. You might buy from or for a club or from an informal group which meets weekly for a card game afternoon or evening.
Chess
A combined card and chess shop has chess items, more chess than bridge and playing cards. Chess clothing includes a bow tie. The Chess company has a shop in Baker Street, not far from Bond Street. For Christmas or a birthday, wedding, or other gift, you could check out both the chess and bridge shops for gifts for your family and friends.
Etsy has numerous playing card blouses, and reasonably priced tee shirts with black or white backgrounds and either multiple cards or one big card.
Useful websites
Playing card trays from a company called Nauticalia which gives you ten percent off when you sign up.
Chess Patterns
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