pysanky images - Bing Images
With an early Easter a little over a month away now, and while shopping for little gifts for the grandchildren.......I remembered how we would make pysanky which is quite an art form.....when our own children were little........above are some images.
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Wikipedia has all the instructions.........it's fun and they are preserved when all the work is done.........
Not only Ukrainians but Carpatho Rusyns, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Poles, etc. and Ruthenians (another name for early Ukrainians born in the Carpathian Mountain region like my maternal grandmother.........or "White Russians" as she used to say) kept this old tradition going..........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pysanky
Long article on history and how to make them..........it's fun and they can be preserved.........