On a sunny afternoon, in what seems like another world, I went to my friend Candace Cook’s house to make Ukrainian Easter eggs. It was a time when you could still visit a friend, though even then ...

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 ...

YARDLEY, Pa -- Basia Andrusko has been writing Pysanky since she was a child, etching ornate designs on everything from chicken, finch and quail eggs to ostrich, emu and rhea eggs. Pysaty comes from ...

A pysanka (pysanky is plural) is a Ukrainian Easter egg decorated using the batik technique, a method of wax-resist dyeing. Pysanky were traditionally made during the last week of Lent and blessed on ...

Spring Cassidy of North Huntingdon is pretty sure she’s just going to buy a standard egg dye kit from the store next year. “This is not easy,” said Cassidy, as she worked to create a delicate design ...

They’re intricate, colorful and utterly joy-sparking. Yet Ukrainians who created these vibrant eggs once risked persecution for doing so when communists ruled the former Soviet Union, for they were ...

HOT SPRINGS -- No way the item in Lorrie Popow's palm is a real egg. No way. Egg is too simple a word. Try "ovoid." Maybe "bedizened" ovoid. And no way its intricate, interlocking decorations aren't ...

Peter Gurski is a Los Angeles-based set decorator and interior designer who is currently working on a new TBS sitcom called Clipped. But when Easter comes around he picks up tools and dyes and goes ...

GUILFORD — During the Lenten season, Christians do different things to connect with their faith. Some give up meat on Fridays, some fast, and others create pysanky. Amid the warmth of candles, ...

Artist Anna Chychula, second from right, shows workshop attendees design elements in creating Ukrainian pysanky eggs at the Ukrainian National Museum. A collection of ornately decorated Ukrainian ...