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 ...

Layers of beeswax designs and dye go into making pysanky eggs, an Easter tradition in Ukraine and other countries in eastern and central Europe. Many people feeling heartbroken and helpless over the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While the Ukrainian eggs are less of a pagan offering and more of a classical art form these days, ...

DALLAS, Pa. — It's a centuries-old Ukrainian tradition known as Pysanky. "The eggs go back about 2,000-plus years. The Ukraine area was originally pagan or non-Christian. So, a lot of the symbols on ...

Jenny Santa Maria decorates and egg and teaches Pysanky - also known as Ukrainian eggs, at a class at Calgo Gardens, in Howell, N.J. March, 27, 2022 Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Jenny Santa ...

HOT SPRINGS -- No way the item in Lorrie Popow's palm is a real egg. No way. Egg is too simple a word. Try "ovoid." Maybe "bedizened" ovoid. And no way its intricate, interlocking decorations aren't ...

OLYPHANT – Ann Marie Czaja received persuasive encouragement while meticulously applying wax to an egg Sunday afternoon. “If I can do it, you can do it,” her 10-year-old granddaughter, Abigail Bronko, ...

Ss. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church, Olyphant, will offer a Ukrainian Pysanky Egg Workshop for beginners. The workshop will be at St. Cyril’s Hall, 207 River St., Olyphant. Classes are ...

Artist Anna Chychula, second from right, shows workshop attendees design elements in creating Ukrainian pysanky eggs at the Ukrainian National Museum. A collection of ornately decorated Ukrainian ...

Though American churches are trying out the art of making pysanka, Ukrainian Christians say it is not a religious tradition. To do the ancient Ukrainian practice of pysanky, you need a strong, smooth ...