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Grab your tools because we're talking about how to make pysanky eggs! This Easter tradition originated in Ukraine and is a fun activity for the family.
A great variety of ornamental motifs are found on Ukrainian pysanky. Because of the egg's fragility, few ancient examples of pysanky have survived. However, similar design motifs occur in Ukrainian pottery, woodwork, metalwork, Ukrainian embroidery and other folk arts, [23] many of which have survived.
Named after the Ukrainian word pysaty, which translates as "to write," pysanky eggs have intricate patterns that stop you in your tracks. The craft has been passed down from mother to daughter ...
In 1947, Perchyshyn and her mother started a Ukrainian gift shop, selling traditional embroidery, tapestries, and ceramics, as well as books. They started from home, but soon moved into a storefront on Hennepin Avenue, [3] where Luba Perchyshyn began assembling kits for making pysanky, intricately decorated eggs made with a wax-resist technique. [4]
To create pysanky, eggs are partially covered in wax and dipped in dye to produce colourful patterns and ornaments that may carry symbolic meaning. Nowadays, the tradition is associated with Easter and can be found throughout Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora, especially in Estonia , resulting in the shared nomination of the item from both ...
She’s learning to design pysanky, the ornately decorated traditional Easter eggs of Ukraine, where the 60-year-old was born and lived until her 1991 immigration to Chicago. But her focus was ...
Vegreville egg. The Vegreville egg is a giant sculpture of a pysanka, a Ukrainian-style Easter egg.The work by Paul Maxym Sembaliuk is built of an intricate set of two-dimensional anodized aluminum tiles in the shape of congruent equilateral triangles and star-shaped hexagons, fashioned over an aluminum framework.
The Pysanky eggs at Wiregrass painted by local artist, Fran Buie, are inspired by hand-painted Easter eggs created in Eastern Europe.