Ukrainian Method of Decorating Eggs or Pysanky

Ukrainian method of painting eggs called pysanky. This Eastern European art of egg decorating is similar to batik, and the method requires the use of wax and special dye.

To do this technique we used...

kistka, a stylus used that holds the wax and allows us to draw on the egg

room temperature eggs without removing the content

Ukrainian egg dyes* (other commercial dyes won't work well)

beeswax

candle 

For details and techniques/ tips etc., I referred to this site. Here are pictures of the outcome:

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