Hope!! How To Brand Pysanky (Ukrainian Easter Eggs)

I made these pysanky lastly year

HOW TO MAKE PYSANKY (Ukrainian Easter Eggs)
(pysanka - singular, pysanky - plural)

PART ONE: HOW THEY ARE MADE

I was taught how to brand pysanky yesteryear my manful somebody rear John, who was a commencement generation Ukrainian-American. My grandparents were from the Carpathian Mountain portion of Lviv, Ukraine. Designs on the eggs are fundamentally traditional, passed downwardly generation to generation, as well as differences inwards styles are mainly regional.

What are pysanky?
Pysanki, or pysanky (pronounced: puh-sahn-key) are Ukrainian Easter eggs. They are made from existent chicken eggs. The most interesting affair close them, aside from their intricate, beautiful designs, is the means they are made: The designs are non painted on, but are done inwards a wax-resist technique using hot bees wax. The procedure is similar to batik.

How create yous brand pysanky?
Basically, yous start amongst a evidently white egg. You commence yesteryear drawing designs on the egg inwards hot bees wax amongst a pen-like tool called a kistka (stylus) as well as whatever areas yous comprehend amongst wax volition rest white.

When yous are finished roofing the areas that yous wishing to give-up the ghost on white, the egg is as well as thence dipped into a dye bathroom of the lightest color, such equally yellow. The white areas that yous receive got covered inwards wax volition non absorb the yellowish dye as well as volition rest white because they are beneath the wax.

Once the egg is the desired shade of yellow, yous take it from the dye, dry out it off completely, as well as then, over again using the kistka as well as hot wax, yous comprehend the areas of the egg that yous wishing to give-up the ghost on yellow.

Then the egg goes into the next, darker dye, such equally orange, as well as the procedure is repeated until yous gain your final, darkest dye bath…and thence on as well as thence on until yous receive got finished your blueprint inwards wax.

In the destination yous volition receive got an egg that has a lot of wax on it! The lastly measuring is the most fun: yous carefully melt away all the wax as well as the colorful blueprint is revealed!

You create non demand to utilisation many colors, but traditionally the principal colors used are: yellow, orange, red, brick, brown, as well as black.

Nowadays yous tin purchase the egg dyes inwards many shades such equally green, purple, bluish (light, dark, royal), turquoise, pink, fuchsia, scarlet, etc.

One of import note: yous MUST utilisation dyes made specially for pysanki. These dyes are poisonous as well as should non live used approximately or yesteryear children.

Also, the egg should never live eaten.

Sometimes I volition utilisation exclusively 1 dye bath, such equally purple. First I volition wax the areas that I wishing to give-up the ghost on white, as well as thence dip the egg inwards purple, as well as thence the lawsuit volition live a majestic as well as white egg. Two-tone eggs are beautiful!

PART TWO: TOOLS AND PREPERATION

Supplies Needed:

Many newspaper towels
Mason jars or large peanut butter jars amongst lids
boiling water
regular white vinegar
large spoons for mixing dyes as well as dipping eggs
pysanki dyes
a candle for heating kistka as well as also for removing wax from egg when finished
matches or lighter
Block of beeswax made specifically for pysanky
kistka (stylus)
pencil amongst eraser for sketching designs on eggs
chicken eggs
optional: pysanky how-to mass amongst designs as well as instructions
straight pivot as well as tool for blowing out within of egg

Gathering supplies:
I receive got works life that my local air-conditioning Moore carries pysanki supplies, but exclusively seasonally, as well as the dyes tend to sell out fast, thence when I meet them I stock up!

To create the solar daytime before: Make your dyes

Mix dyes according to packet directions. It is best to create the dyes the solar daytime earlier yous are going to utilisation them, because most directions instruct yous to utilisation boiling hot water, as well as it takes the dyes spell to cool down. Be certain to follow the mixing directions exactly, specially when making the orangish dye, inwards which vinegar is NOT added. Vinegar IS needed for most of the dye colors. Pysanky dyes are PERMANENT as well as if yous tumble them they volition stain simply close whatever surface including clothing as well as tabletops…use amongst caution!

Prepare your eggs:

I utilisation large or extra large chicken eggs. You tin utilisation whatever size yous like. Try to purchase ones that create non receive got dates stamped on each shell, equally that postage stamp volition unremarkably demonstrate through your finished design. Use exclusively raw eggs, as well as live certain to take them from the fridge for a few hours earlier yous commence working amongst them thence that they are room temperature. Cold eggs volition sweat as well as live impossible to piece of occupation with! Do non travail to warm them yesteryear putting them inwards warm H2O or yesteryear whatever other method. Just take them from the fridge the dark earlier as well as allow them naturally acquire room temperature. Do non give-up the ghost on them inwards Styrofoam egg cartons, equally these volition retain moisture. Use exclusively cardboard egg cartons to agree as well as store your eggs.

The Kistka (stylus)

Kistkas come upwardly inwards 3 basic sizes, fine, medium as well as heavy.

Traditional kistkas

The size of the kistka refers to the thickness of the trouble that it draws. Traditional kistkas are similar pencils amongst woods handles as well as a copper destination that is held over the candle open fire as well as heated, as well as thence held gently against the beeswax. The beeswax volition melt as well as fill upwardly the kistka as well as and thence the wax flows through the opening as well as tin live applied to the egg. Nowadays many professionals utilisation electrical kistkas, which are corking because they keep temperature as well as are a lot faster to utilisation than the traditional kistkas, but they also receive got a lot of practise to acquire used to. I utilisation both types but ever detect myself going dorsum to the traditional type of kistka. I highly recommend learning to brand pysanky amongst traditional kistkas.

Beeswax block

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 natural colored beeswax block is used amongst the traditional kistka, as well as dark colored beeswax is used for the electrical kistka. This is because the electrical kistka volition non blacken the wax when heating it, as well as the candle open fire will.