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 ...

The eggs, called pysanky, are a tradition thousands of years started in Eastern Europe. Colorful and intricate patterns are etched upon the eggs using beeswax and dyes. To encourage the dozen pysanky ...

"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, ...

In pysanky, the colors and designs carry meaning and call out to the gods and goddesses for health, fertility, love, wealth and much more With Easter approaching this Sunday, and amid the ongoing war ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ukranian Easter eggs, called pysanka, are delicate, beautiful things. And, at their heart, they’re entwined with beliefs that are deep and powerful. How powerful? Some believe the fate of the world ...

Jackson resident Barbara Duncan taught a series of pysanky classes at Crisp Museum in Cape Girardeau. Pysanky is the traditional Ukrainian art of decorating eggs using multiple coats of dye and wax to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bonnie Deprez's great-grandfather owned a grain mill in Ukraine during the early 20th century. Her grandmother remembered government wagons coming to their family farm and taking most of their food, ...