Let's talk about a beautiful Easter tradition that many Americans may not know about: painting pysanky eggs! This craft is probably unfamiliar to most families, who have their own Easter egg rituals.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the patterns dry, the eggs are dipped in colored dyes and then washed in cleaning solutions, which leaves colorful patterns on the eggs, Thorwart said. Lindsay Taylor of New Kensington said the ...

POTTSVILLE – As she admired the delicate colors and patterns of the pysanky egg she cradled in her hands, Haidyn Neifert smiled. “I really like it,” the 13-year-old from Schuylkill Haven said. Neifert ...

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," ...

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 ...

If you are planning on decorating eggs for Easter, you might want to buy them early. Due to an alignment of the calendars, Eastern Orthodox Easter will fall on the same day as traditional Western ...

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.

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 ...

OAKLAND — Something as benign as an egg fosters creativity and hope and wards off bad luck, according to Ukrainian folklore. Area artisans are busy creating intricately decorated eggs called “pysanky” ...