Ukrainian and other East European Easter Eggs

[Kazimiera]

A pysanka (Ukrainian: писанка, plural: pysanky) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist (batik) method. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, "to write", as the designs are not painted on, but written with beeswax.

Many other eastern European ethnic groups decorate eggs using wax resist for Easter. These include the

• Belarusians (пісанка, pisanka)
• Bulgarians (писано яйце, pisano yaytse)
• Croats (pisanica)
• Czechs (kraslice)
• Hungarians (hímestojás)
• Lithuanians (margutis)
• Poles (pisanka)
• Romanians (ouă vopsite, incondeiate or impistrite)
• Serbs (pisanica)
• Slovaks (kraslica)
• Slovenes (pisanica, pirhi or remenke)
• Sorbs (jejka pisać)

[Swearengen]

Giant Pysanka in Canadian Ukrainian town

[Kazimiera]

Oh wow! That is awesome!

I also found pictures of some rather big ones.

[lI]

A pysanka (Ukrainian: писанка, plural: pysanky) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist (batik) method. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, "to write", as the designs are not painted on, but written with beeswax.

Many other eastern European ethnic groups decorate eggs using wax resist for Easter. These include the

• Belarusians (пісанка, pisanka)
• Bulgarians (писано яйце, pisano yaytse)
• Croats (pisanica)
• Czechs (kraslice)
• Hungarians (hímestojás)
• Poles (pisanka)
• Romanians (ouă vopsite, incondeiate or impistrite)
• Serbs (pisanica)
• Slovaks (kraslica)
• Slovenes (pisanica, pirhi or remenke)
• Sorbs (jejka pisać)
• Lithuanians (margutis)

This seems to be a truly pan-Eastern-European tradition A few countries were left out in that list though:

• Latvians (Lieldienu olas)
• Estonians (munad lihavõtteks?)

A few more examples:
Latvia


Lithuania





But the most popular way of painting them in both Lithuania and Latvia is with herbs and onion shells:

[Gorštak]

When I was a kid I was happy when some Serb friends of my parents would give me those beautiful eggs for Easter .
We would play with those eggs, hit egg with egg, whose egg don't break he won.

[Kazimiera]

This seems to be a truly pan-Eastern-European tradition A few countries were left out in that list though:

• Latvians (Lieldienu olas)
• Estonians (munad lihavõtteks?)

A few more examples:
Latvia


Lithuania





But the most popular way of painting them in both Lithuania and Latvia is with herbs and onion shells:

These are lovely!

I do them with the onion peels and herbs every year. But this year I couldn't find any nice herbs, so I just made them with onion peels. I made some with marijuana leaves one year! I found a marijuana tree in my garden, probably kids throwing pips over the wall. The result was stunning! Some of the chlorophyll came off onto the leaf stain and made it green. I wish I took photos.

These were from this year.

[Hercus Monte]

here's the one I made this year

[georgefra]

I think this is very interesting type of art

[Baldur]

we do the same in Sweden.

[Temujin]

we do the same in Sweden.

Could you find some pictures of painted easter eggs from Sweden, pls?