Category: Pysanky eggs

There are not many people who would try to do pysanky on a finch egg, but I did just that. Actually on several.  It is only fair to say that emptying the egg contents out of a finch egg is very very difficult, if not impossible, but I did try.  Then getting the tiny fragile egg shell to withstand being pressed under the dye water is difficult as well.  When finished (if they make it that far) a good sneeze will blow them off a shelf onto the floor.  Haha.  This is one of those which has survived about 20 years.  My phone doesn’t do well with macrophotography (it is pretty old).

Chicken eggs which have washed in the machines for commercial use sometimes get scarred as they roll around hundreds of times on the belts that move them and that makes the pysanka dyes take unevenly.

So I went to google and asked “how are eggs washed commercially” and what came up, I read, and wasn’t really happy about what things were mentioned. I recommend that anyone who eats eggs, go to the website at the bottom of this page. So from this I suspect that the reason for the unusual dying qualities of commercially produced (meaning chicken mega-farms (hear this!! there are 60 chicken farms that have 5 million hens each… how do they keep them clean and healthy).  Washing eggs is not good for eggs, but when they are washed there are very definite do’s and don’ts. I will need to google Kroger eggs to see what they do to their chickens, chicks, and eggs.  Anyway, here is a pysanka made from a Kroger egg.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/06/08/why-you-dont-want-to-buy-organic-eggs-at-the-grocery-store.aspx

Another ukranian style dyed egg, from the 1990s sometime.

If you want to purchase a similar (or this exact egg) you can contact me through http://memory-beads.com

I can remember exactly who first gave me a set of 3 or 4 pysanky egg dyes. I must have been middle aged, but for decades had tried to accomplish with traditional egg dyes and a paint brush the bright colors and fine lines found in pysanky eggs. Thank you Jan. You gave me years of fun and egg making.
Here is an egg that was given to a colleague sometime in the early 1990s. It is not ‘wonderful’ like some very well trained artists’ pysanka. It was returned to me when that person planned a move out of the country, so I thought I would share it.  Several others I will post as well.
I would recommend the Ukranian Gift Shop for pysanky dyes and kistkas, I have used them for years.