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 ...

REDDING—Visitors to New Pond Farm Saturday got to learn the traditional Ukranian craft of making intricate Pysanky eggs, but maybe more importantly, said instructor Chanel Dupare, they learned the ...

A basket of pysanky at Strawberry Hill Museum in Kansas City, Kan., illustrates the many symbols and designs created for the Eastern European tradition that dates to pre-Christian times. The egg held ...

Give the Easter Bunny some competition! Supplement your income with decorated Easter eggs. Ukrainian egg patterns are a beautiful, traditional craft. For over 2,500 years, the art of egg decoration ...

1 of 7 — Ukrainians have been crafting pysanky, elaborately decorated eggs, for thousands of years. "There's an ancient legend that as long as pysanky are made, evil will not prevail in the world," ...

Amanda Ackers remembers when she was 7 years old, sitting with her great-grandmother learning to make her first pysanka. Today she is an adult and her great-grandparents are deceased, but she can ...

There are several different traditional forms of egg decorating, and every egg is like a blank canvas on which to apply your talents. Some designers use a form called the "pysanky" method that ...

AMBRIDGE -- Eleven-year-old Maya Kozup of Emsworth worked so intently, you could almost feel the sweat beading on her brow. Cutting a diamond? Cracking a safe? Nope. Making an Easter egg. But not just ...

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 ...

Speaking on ETV show "Ringvaade," calligrapher Tiina Kull explained how Ukrainians paint eggs at Easter using wax to write symbols and traditional patterns that are believed to have protective powers.

Maria Fedachtchin’s fingers trembled a bit as she etched the first intricate lines of beeswax along the smooth, unblemished shell of an egg cradled in her palm. She’s learning to design pysanky, the ...

It all starts with the egg. In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end. So it's no surprise that cultures around the world celebrate spring by ...