Romanian Beaded Eggs

[Kazimiera]

Although modern versions of the beaded pysanka can now be found throughout Ukraine, they are an indigenous folk art form only in Bukovyna, both northern (Ukrainian) and southern (Romanian). These beautiful eggs were once created only in convents by nuns, and are one of the many Romanian influences on Bukovynian folk culture. In Bukovyna beads were also used in embroidery.

Beaded pysanky were created with a form of inlay: an egg (real or wooden) was coated with beeswax, and then small glass beads were pressed into its surface to create patterns. The patterns were colorful and generally geometric.

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Detail of beadwork on traditional beaded pysanka

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[Cristiano viejo]

I saw a lot of these eggs in a market in the Castle of Bran...

[Kazimiera]

They are SO beautiful!!

[ruber]

They are really nice!

It is a first time I see eggs with beads. I am used to eggs being decorated by colors, beewax, cupper wire, cotton, straw, dried flowers or perforated.

It brings back memories. As a child, I created hunderts of them. I mostly used the traditinal technique of negative pattern. An egg was cleaned and degreased, then I painted it by hot beewax, put into liquid color, dried, added another pattern by beewax, put into another (darker) liquid paint, dried, heated up to get off the beewax and then polished by grease for high gloss.

[Vlach]

They are really nice!

It is a first time I see eggs with beads. I am used to eggs being decorated by colors, beewax, cupper wire, cotton, straw, dried flowers or perforated.

It brings back memories. As a child, I created hunderts of them. I mostly used the traditinal technique of negative pattern. An egg was cleaned and degreased, then I painted it by hot beewax, put into liquid color, dried, added another pattern by beewax, put into another (darker) liquid paint, dried, heated up to get off the beewax and then polished by grease for high gloss.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4wYUYjO4qU