Thank you all for your wonderful reactions!
The originals are A4, approx. like the US Letter size.
A lot of research went into them before I knew exactly how I wanted to interpret each card.
Working in fabric is very exciting now, because you can print from your jet printer on fabric and choose between: cotton, silk, organza and I think Satin, although I haven't tried the satin.
It wasn't quite like patchwork, where pieces fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, but there was a lot of applique, where pieces are stitched on top of a background.
There is also a lot of freemotion stitching, a technique where you use the needle like a stationary pencil and move the fabric as if it was the paper you are drawing on. It takes a fair bit of exprience to be able to do that well, but it is great fun when you can do it comforably.
I used beads, glitzy fabrics, ribbons, bit of jewellery, lots of printing on fabric and then stitching that. I stitched a lot by hand, using thicker threads and I also used fabric pens to add more colour here and there.
I also used some Dover designs: for example the lovers in The Lovers was a Dover design printed on organza, fused to the background and then stitched to define.
Re fusing: best thing since sliced bread for textile artists!
Fusible web comes on a roll, attached a backing paper. You can draw on the paper, cut it out roughly, fuse (glue) that to your fabric with an iron.
Next: cut out exactly, peel off the paper and you know have an iron-on patch you can fuse to your background.
You probably didn't want to know quite so much!
Re making a full set: I felt I got the Tarot out of my system when I completed the Major Arcana. But...never say never...I do have the Zerner/Farber deck. Textile Tarots have also been done as group projects, but I don't think they were published.
Hetty