Give the Easter Bunny some competition! Supplement your income with decorated Easter eggs. Ukrainian egg patterns are a beautiful, traditional craft. For over 2,500 years, the art of egg decoration ...
Johanna Kovitz has been decorating raw eggs with drawings - using bee's wax and dyes - for about 35 years. On Palm Sunday, she shared the traditional Ukrainian craft of pysanka during a demonstration ...
Speaking on ETV show "Ringvaade," calligrapher Tiina Kull explained how Ukrainians paint eggs at Easter using wax to write symbols and traditional patterns that are believed to have protective powers.
POTTSVILLE – As she admired the delicate colors and patterns of the pysanky egg she cradled in her hands, Haidyn Neifert smiled. “I really like it,” the 13-year-old from Schuylkill Haven said. Neifert ...
Egg decorating is always a fun project for kids, but can be just as much fun for adults. The most familiar is the dyed colored Easter eggs using food coloring or the kits found at the local store.
This isn’t your average, from-a-kit Easter egg dying. In preparation for the holiday, many Ukrainians partake in a tradition of intricately decorating eggs called ‘pysanka.’ The term comes from the ...
Creating traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs is not for the faint of heart. The process can take two to four hours, even for the simplest eggs, instructor Bernadette Thorwart said Saturday morning in ...
1 of 1 — Slovenian artist Franc Grom drilled 20,000 minute holes to craft this luminous Easter egg. As Nancy Shute reported in 2012, Ukrainians have for centuries practiced an ancient form of art, ...
At the Hazard Branch Public Library in Syracuse 17 adults learned how to decorate Pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs. They were taught by Anna Perun, who came to the United States from Ukraine in 1991. In ...
Of all the Easter traditions, one of the most common is the Easter egg. Whether it's decorated eggs with watercolor paints, chocolate eggs given out as treats or plastic eggs filled with candy, the ...
Maria Fedachtchin’s fingers trembled a bit as she etched the first intricate lines of beeswax along the smooth, unblemished shell of an egg cradled in her palm. She’s learning to design pysanky, the ...