—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 9, 1977
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Ukranian method
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ending with dark, the beeswax is used before each dye
application to delineate the areas where the dye should
not take, thus forming the design.
A basic design is drawn on the egg with the kistka
filled with beeswax. To make the wax flow from the
kistka, Mrs. Seith held it next to a burning candle.
Sometimes she said she will draw the design first in
pencil, then go over it with the kistka. The part of the
egg covered with beeswax will remain white. Then the
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.» i nun mange dyes is used, and another
design drawn on. Next red dye is used, and then
another design and finally a black dye is used. Red or
black is usually the final color in true pysanky. The
number of colors and the order in which they are used
may vary.
When all the dyeing is completed, the wax is
removed by holding the egg close tothe-candle and
then just wiping it off with paper toweling. Mrs. Seith
said that sometimes you forget the earlier drawings
you’ve made, so it is at this moment that you get the
total picture, with the yellow, orange and red layers
showing through.
Mrs. Seith suggests spraying the final finished egg
with a glaze. “This helps preserve them so they don’t
crack.” She also suggests storing the eggs in a room
which has a constant temperature, and says, “They
will last indefinitely.” She has some eggs which are
five years old.
When asked why she uses a raw egg, she said she
does it to the pansky “original.” She said she has lost
very few eggs, although occasionally one will leak, or
will get broken in storage. Some people put a pin prick
in one end to help gasses escape, she said, but even
tually any egg will dry out on its own. For those who
are timid about working with a raw egg, she says the
shells can be blown out and the holes covered with the
beeswax used in the decorating process.
Mrs. Seith said she likes to use jumbo eggs, but says,
“any kind of egg can be used. It is better if the egg has
not been washed commercially because sometimes it
won’t take dye properly.” She added that one of the
superstitions of the pysanky is that the first egg a hen
lays is the best to use.
Mrs. Seith, whose mother was bom in Poland, says
she enjoys the craft because it gives her a chance to
work at a craft from her heritage. She said pysanky
was not made in her home, but she remembers seeing
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the beautiful eggs as a child and wondering how they
were matte.
She said many Ukranian people still adhere to the
custom, and there has been a revival among Ukranian
settlements, particularly in the mid-west. The art
stopped completely during the second World War
because of the shortage of eggs, but otherwise has
continued, and gains in popularity.
Mrs. Seith, who lived on a Wisconsin dairy farm with
her parents until fourth grade, has lived in Lancaster
for six years. She said she enjoys doing things with her
hands, and about Mice or twice a year gives, a
demonstration of pysanky. She also does crewel em
broidery and sews for herself. She has two daughters,
I inda, 20, and I .auric, 15, both of whom have teamed to
decorate pysanky from their mother. The Seiths have a
son, David, 18.
Mrs. Seith formerly workedas a teacher, and is now
a teacher's aide in kindergarten and fifth grade.
One of the most popular legends about pysanky
according to Mrs. Seith that a poor peddler was on his
way to market to sell a basket of eggs and came upon a
crowd which was mocking a man carrying a cross. The
peddlar set his basket down on the road and helped the
man carry the cross. The man, of course, was Jesus;
the peddlar, Simon. It is said that when Simon returned
to his-basket he discovered the beautifully decorated
eggs, the first pysanky.
Another long-held superstitution about the pysanky
is that somewhere there is a monster chained to a huge
cliff, and his servants count the number of pysanky in
the world. If few eggs are made, he can break his chain
and cause much evil in the world. However, if many
pysanky are made, his chains will tighten and there
will be little evil. Mrs. Seith said the superstition says
that if the custom of pysanky comes to an end, the
monster will break his chains and destroy the world.
The Ukranians also dyed hard cooked eggs, as we do
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