Symbols on Stuff: T-Shirts Stickers Hats and Gifts : Playing Card Symbols

The primary deck of fifty-two playing cards in use today, called Anglo-American playing cards, includes thirteen ranks of each of the four French suits, spades (?), hearts (?), diamonds (?) and clubs (?), with reversible Rouennais court cards. Each suit includes an ace, depicting a single symbol of its suit; a king, queen, and jack, each depicted with a symbol of its suit; and ranks two through ten, with each card depicting that many symbols (pips) of its suit. Two (sometimes one or four) Jokers, often distinguishable with one being more colorful than the other, are included in commercial decks but many games require one or both to be removed before play. Buy great gifts for poker player, texas hold 'em, casino players, gamblers, close-up magicians, cartomantists or anyone who loves playing or researching playing card symbolism. Playing card symbols t-shirts, sweatshirts, buttons, hats and more.

Diamonds Diamonds represent warmth, light, femininity, earthly matter, money, courage, and energy, but fortune-tellers often associate diamonds with spitefulness and annoyance.	Clubs The playing card symbols of clubs corresponds to trèfle, the French symbol being joined to the Italian name, bastoni.	Hearts In religious texts such as the Bible, the heart has historically been ascribed much mystical significance, either as metaphor or as an organ believed to have spiritual or divine attributes.
Spades The Ace of Spades began under the reign of James I of England, who passed a law requiring an insignia on that card as proof of payment of a tax on local manufacture of cards.