List: All published works

My Knitting Life : Article in 'Piecework' magazine, Fall 2024   (pdf)

The Unbeliever's Bible : Collected unpublished essays   (pdf)

The flyer for Man Made God, published 2010   (pdf)

Collected reviews for Man Made God   (pdf)

Readers' comments on Man Made God   (pdf)
    (excerpted from Amazon reviews)

The Art of Tarot, a short history of playing cards
  (plus book / deck info)

Tarot Talk: longer presentation notes on the history of the Tarot,
  and its influence on modern playing cards   (pdf)

Tarot artwork proof prints layouts   (old, somewhat faded, now gone)
    There is a project in the works to recover from different media

Barbara's tarot / oracle card deck inventory
  (Lifetime collection, minus some sold-off items; rest are still available)

Atlantis: Evolution of a Myth   (pdf)
   (an essay from Belief and Unbelief)

Womb Envy: an interview with Joan d'Arc   (pdf)

Recommended Reading   (pdf)

Podcast essay read during Jennifer Jefferies' "Present Day Wise Woman Podcast", October 2025   (pdf)

I Ching artwork, a photographic study of the original paintings for the "I Ching of the Goddess" divination kit

A look at some of Barbara's internal organization techniques via the extensive notes and records she kept on various topics

Some levity:
  What if the "three wise men" had been women?
  and, the infamous "spiderweb comic" ... a segue into the next section!

Other topics: knitting

The Art of Knitting:   A photographic journey through Barbara's extensive knitted works
  (*Note: still in process of being built)

Interview with Meg Swansen   (pdf)
    (From Vogue Knitting, Holiday 2013 issue)

The Treasury Project:   A community effort to reproduce all of the patterns from the "Treasuries" books, and build a public-domain, copyright-free archive of detailed imagaes.
    (From about 2008 - 2014, project appears to have stopped)

Right-side and wrong-side trees: an amusing roadtrip observation, somewhere in upstate NY maybe?

A six-minute sweep of Barbara's *original* doll-clothing collection as it was in 1989, recovered from a very old and somewhat badly shot video.  Full-screen it and freeze at the more-focused points to view best detail.
There were over 350 dolls in the collection at the time, all with uniquely designed garments knitted in fine yarns on triple-zero needles.  All told, she designed over 700 unique outfits for them to wear.

Here's an article from a crafts show in 2022, when Barbara participated with some of her knitcraft.  [700 Mb jpeg]  This was held at the retirement facility where she lived.

Barbara was one of the "Big 3" triumvirate back in the day, along with Elizabeth Zimmerman and Mary Walker Phillips (no relation), leading lights in the knitwear design field. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

Random external resources

Study group: The Barbara Walker Tarot   at the Tarot, Tea, and Me community
Details and discussion about some individual cards from the tarot deck, taken from the accompanying guide booklet.  (Partial project, card images available to logged-in forum members)

Barbara's Wikipedia page (somewhat inaccurate in places, attempts to edit / fix got deleted)

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In memoriam

Barbara Walker passed in December of 2025, of metastatic abdominal cancer.  She was 95.  Her son was with her in Florida all the way to the end, and had kept a running "diary" of sorts through the entire experience, from learning of the illness onward.  Barbara will be remembered for many talents and knowledge via her authorship, artistry and academia across many fields -- knitting and graphic / fashion design, paintings and detailed guides for two card decks, feminism and womens' studies, debunking organized religion, mineralogy, her autobiographical notes, and more.  Not to mention the task of motherhood along with most of it!  She kept painstakingly precise notes and records of all her projects, which led to her books being so well-organized.  The majority of her prolific writing was done on a manual typewriter or the IBM Selectric she had later; only very recent material was done on a computer -- quite a bit after everyone else was already using word processors.

Barbara's wise words will live on.