Hohoho Treasure Hunting: There's Gilt Inwards Them Thair Egg Decorating Supplies

One of the rattling outset crafts that I learned how to practice when I was a piffling daughter was how to brand Pysanky, aka Ukrainian Easter eggs.

I retrieve sitting at the kitchen tabular array amongst my manly someone bring upward when I was perchance 7 years old, together with watching every bit he showed me how he wrapped fatty prophylactic bands simply about the eggs to work every bit guidelines for drawing the outset segmentation lines on the eggs inward pencil. After our designs were penciled onto our eggs, nosotros together with then would work a traditional tool called a kistka, or stylus, to depict over the lines amongst hot, melted beeswax. Next would come upward a succession of dye baths, inward betwixt each privy nosotros applied additional wax to our eggs until our designs were complete. At final came the fun part; melting all of the wax off of our eggs to let on the vivid colorful designs below. Our eggs were never perfect, but the magic was there, together with the tradition was born.

Nowadays I convey a egg lathe (yes, at that spot genuinely is such a thing!) to aid me depict the outset dividing lines on my eggs, every bit good every bit modern dyes inward a myriad of colors, together with fifty-fifty electrical kistkas, together with though I work all of these modern tools to aid me brand my pysanky, I also all the same work traditional tools every bit well. And they are becoming difficult to find.

Some of the best places to honor traditional tools together with supplies - for whatsoever traditional arts and crafts - is from some other creative someone who specializes inward the same craft. In an old, "dying art" (no pun intended) arts and crafts similar pysanky, those artists are becoming few together with far between. So where did I acquire to await for books together with supplies? Ebay, of course. And I approximate it was my lucky day, because I happened to stumble upon a newly-listed auction for an entire box of quondam pysanky supplies. I scoured the photos, thrilled yesteryear what I saw. Inside the box at that spot were a few books on pysanky designs, the traditional pysanky egg dyes, quondam fashioned kistkas every bit good every bit a of the few newer electrical ones. I emailed the seller straight off together with offered him $75.00 for the box. He agreed, together with presently I had my treasures.

When my box arrived inward the postal service I eagerly went through each together with every item. It was clear that these supplies had belonged to someone who goodness the arts and crafts for many years. There were things written on some of the pages of the books; notes almost for sure dye colors used for for sure designs, things that exclusively someone rattling serious almost their fine art would brand greenback of. But the biggest surprise was when I got to the bottom of the box together with took out the final book. Beneath it, was an antique envelope of gilded leaf! This unused packet of gilded foliage worth simply about $100.00! To me though, the existent treasure was inward the quondam pysanky tools together with books.

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