As the war in Ukraine continues into the Easter season—with the Catholic and Protestant churches celebrating Easter on April 17, and Orthodox Easter, as celebrated by many Ukrainians, falling on April ...
A detailed pysanky egg design featuring an Orthodox Church is seen up-close during a pysanky egg workshop on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at Faith Lutheran Church in Harrison. The tradition of pysanky ...
They’re not your ordinary dyed Easter eggs. About a dozen crafters, many of them novices, came to Greensburg on Saturday to try their hands at turning white eggshells into intricately designed, ...
Put down that egg dyeing kit and come look at the eggs Carol Novosel creates using wax and dyes like her Ukrainian ancestors did. Novosel said she can create one of these intricately designed eggs, ...
DALLAS, Pa. — It's a centuries-old Ukrainian tradition known as Pysanky. "The eggs go back about 2,000-plus years. The Ukraine area was originally pagan or non-Christian. So, a lot of the symbols on ...
During the Easter season, there are many opportunities to learn the art of pysanky, the Ukrainian tradition of decorating Easter eggs. Instructor Tammy Budnovitch, a Peckville native and Lake Ariel ...
When her children were growing up, Terese Wallack Waldron would spend Good Friday teaching them the fine points of pysanky, the Ukrainian art of decorating eggs for Easter. After one such session in ...
On a cold and snowy April morning at the Underwear Factory in Poughkeepsie, Ukrainian artist Vitalia Deriabina instructed a workshop of seven women in the art of writing “pysanky.” Pysanky is an ...
A full house at the Lackawanna Historical Society this morning as a group of budding artists learned to make pysanky eggs. A Ukrainian tradition, the eggs differ from dyed Easter eggs in intricacy and ...
One egg includes the entire Lord’s Prayer. “Once you start doing this, you never look at eggs the same way again,” Adam said. Pysanky is a family tradition that began in 1923 when her grandparents ...