Kurdish Cultural Playing Cards

More Than a Game

Every shuffle, deal, and laugh is a reminder of who we are — a people of connection, creativity, and heritage

What’s Included

Each Double Kay set includes:

• Two full decks of cards – custom illustrated with Kurdish-inspired artwork.
• One notebook – for writing thoughts, ideas, or scores.
• One pen – to accompany your notebook.One case – carefully designed to keep the cards protected and organized after the game is finished.

Double Kay: The Kurdish Cultural Playing Cards

Double Kay is a collectible set of Kurdish cultural playing cards. Each character, symbol, and detail represents a piece of Kurdish life, history, and everyday culture.

Every illustration tells a story:

🕊️ Partridge: symbolizes freedom and resilience, known among Kurds as a national pride and emblem of Kurdish identity.

🍵 A cup of chay (tea): our daily dose of caffeine and comfort.

👩‍🌾🐑 Shepherdess Berivan holding a sheep: the Shepherdess symbolizes motherly love and resilience, caring for her flock and her children with the same gentle strength and devotion.

𖦏 Brno vz. 24 rifle: a bolt-action carbine designed and produced in Czechoslovakia, a symbol of courage and resistance, held by the Peshmerga who stood firm in the mountains, defending their land and dignity with unwavering strength and honor.

📿 The Tasbih: a symbol of patience, faith, and calm, carried in every Kurdish pocket, reminding its holder to find peace and strength through reflection.

🚬 Basik – the wooden cigarette extender: a mark of Kurdish elegance and habit, used in gatherings and calm moments, symbolizing reflection, tradition, and timeless style.

🦂 Zuhak: the legendary Kurdish villain, a tyrant cursed with serpents on his shoulders, symbolizing greed, corruption, and the darkness that rises when power overtakes mercy.

🩼 The walking cane: a symbol of age, wisdom, and dignity, carried by Kurdish elders who lean on it not just for balance, but for the strength of a lifetime’s journey.

🌼 The Nergis flower: a symbol of purity, hope, and renewal, blooming through the Kurdish mountains as a gentle reminder that beauty and resilience always return after hardship.

🗡️ The dagger: a symbol of honor, courage, and protection, carried by Kurdish men as a mark of strength and readiness to defend dignity and homeland.

🌀 Kurdish patterns: timeless symbols woven into rugs and etched as tattoos on the hands of elderly women, carrying stories of identity, protection, and ancestral pride through every line and shape.

🎶 The flute: the shepherd’s companion in the mountains, symbolizing solitude, peace, and the soulful melodies of Kurdish life carried on the wind.