When her children were growing up, Terese Wallack Waldron would spend Good Friday teaching them the fine points of pysanky, the Ukrainian art of decorating eggs for Easter. After one such session in ...

“Once this workshop is over,” she told the group, “you’ll never look at an Easter egg the same way again.” While there are many interpretations of Pysanky designs, there are general ideas about the ...

Pysanky (the plural of Pysanka) are created with wax and dye as well, but the colors are more vibrant and the patterns more intricate than the standard supermarket variety of egg made from kits.

Pysanky, as these eggs are known in Ukrainian, are made using the wax-resist "batik" method, in which designs are drawn or written onto the egg with beeswax, and then submerged in a series of ...

In its simplest terms, pysanky involves taking fresh eggs, preferably white, waxing them and drawing intricate designs on them. Although many people expel the yolk and albumen from the egg before ...

Some ideas are so clever yet straightforward that they feel obvious once you see them. It’s hard not to wonder why they aren’t everywhere. These smart and simple designs prove that small ...

Pysanky, decorated using beeswax and dyes, date back to ancient times and symbolize the rebirth of the earth in spring. In Ukraine, each region embeds its unique customs and symbols in the design ...

The word Pysanky is derived from the Ukrainian verb pysaty, which means “to write.” Artists use a special writing tool, called a kistka, which is dipped in hot bees wax and then used to “write” the ...

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