what is the cloth called you read tarot cards on?

Question

I'm selling an old (1986) set of tarot cards on ebay and it has a black cloth with 10 places for cards to go. What is the name of this cloth? Anything else I should use to describe it?

Answer 1

The cloth should be silk which you wrap your cards in along with deer skin to keep them protected.

Answer 2

It is usually just called a tarot cloth. You should describe the style it is in (e.g. Rider-Waite). There are different traditions/styles of pictures and it would be useful to know what it is modelled after. Also, make sure that they are tarot cards and not oracle or gypsy cards. :) It won't take much research to find out the style...just check out a site that sells cards and look at some designs.

Answer 3

You can call it a spread cloth.

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Answer 4

It is just a cloth. I am not a real hard core tarot reader, but everything I have read about them is you can call it a tarot cloth but they do not have a specific name. Some traditions may, but just tarot itself there is no particular name for it

Answer 5

Table cloth.

Really, there is no "special" cloth for tarot cards. It is probably something someone made as a teaching tool, and nothing more.

Sorry. You got nothing more than a fancy table cloth.

Answer 6

A diklo.

Diklo = a Gypsy man's neckerchief, often made of brightly-colored silk, sometimes worn as a bandana