If you're in need of some Easter egg inspiration, you might find a new source in pysanky eggs. This traditional Ukrainian method of decorating eggs has been around for several millennia—and crafty ...
The eggs, called pysanky, are a tradition thousands of years started in Eastern Europe. Colorful and intricate patterns are etched upon the eggs using beeswax and dyes. To encourage the dozen pysanky ...
Traditionally, pysanky were decorated out of sight, finished eggs kept covered in baskets until they were blessed by a priest and sent home as good omens for the year ahead. To hear Nina ...
Let's talk about a beautiful Easter tradition that many Americans may not know about: painting pysanky eggs! This craft is probably unfamiliar to most families, who have their own Easter egg rituals.
Thanks to its tradition and beauty, a centuries-old art form continues to inspire. As a part of the Lenten season, a class ...
In pysanky, the colors and designs carry meaning and call out to the gods and goddesses for health, fertility, love, wealth and much more With Easter approaching this Sunday, and amid the ongoing war ...
Kathy Martin, director of education at Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell, uses a kistka to draw a pattern in wax while making Ukrainian Easter eggs at the museum on April 10. This intricately ...
REDDING—Visitors to New Pond Farm Saturday got to learn the traditional Ukranian craft of making intricate Pysanky eggs, but maybe more importantly, said instructor Chanel Dupare, they learned the ...
A basket of pysanky at Strawberry Hill Museum in Kansas City, Kan., illustrates the many symbols and designs created for the Eastern European tradition that dates to pre-Christian times. The egg held ...
Amanda Ackers remembers when she was 7 years old, sitting with her great-grandmother learning to make her first pysanka. Today she is an adult and her great-grandparents are deceased, but she can ...
If you are planning on decorating eggs for Easter, you might want to buy them early. Due to an alignment of the calendars, Eastern Orthodox Easter will fall on the same day as traditional Western ...