Ukrainian egg patterns are a beautiful, traditional craft. For over 2,500 years, the art of egg decoration known as pysanky (pronounced “pee-sahn-kee”) has been practiced in the Ukraine.

The one Ukrainian tradition my mother proudly maintained took place every Easter season. An artist at heart, Mom had the talent and skills needed to create gorgeous pysanka.

Pysanky (or pysanka in the singular form) is rooted in the Ukrainian verb "to write." In this case, that refers to the pretty patterns you would scrawl across the eggs.

Ukrainian pysanky are typically created using a wax-resist technique. With this method, wax is "written" in a decorative pattern on the surface of the egg, which is painted or dyed.

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 ...

2. If new to Ukrainian Easter egg painting, you may want to draw your design onto the egg with pencil first. Start simple and follow a pattern. There are 12 basic designs -- different series of ...

As more wax designs are added, the egg is dyed repeatedly with successively darker dyes. The wax is then melted away, revealing myriad patterns: wheat, fire, animals, the tree of life.

Ukranian Easter eggs, called pysanka, are delicate, beautiful things. And, at their heart, they’re entwined with beliefs that are deep and powerful.How powerful?Some believe the fate of the w… ...

Speaking on ETV show "Ringvaade," calligrapher Tiina Kull explained how Ukrainians paint eggs at Easter using wax to write symbols and traditional patterns that are believed to have protective powers.

Liz Brockland creates intricate designs on her Ukrainian pysanky during a workshop at the Ukrainian National Museum on March 26, 2022, in Chicago. Artist Anna Chychula, second from right, shows wor… ...

April 15, 2022 at 12:01 pm A woman takes pictures of huge pysankas, or decorated Easter eggs, during the opening of the Pysanka Festival in Kyiv in 2018. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) ...

This isn’t your average, from-a-kit Easter egg dying. In preparation for the holiday, many Ukrainians partake in a tradition of intricately decorating eggs called ‘pysanka.’ ...