How to Make Ukrainian Easter Eggs

So, what we do is start with a white fresh egg, chicken egg, goose egg, any egg with the like and we do our first major lines. I have already drawn my major lines with a pencil. I have to take my tool which is my Kistka and fill it up with some wax. And this is how it melts right in. So, every time I touch the eggshell with the beeswax, in the end that that is the color that it will remain.

So, as you can see we start with the white egg. We drew our first major lines and then after that, we proceed to our next color. But before we go to the next color, we have to take our egg and we dip it in a water and vinegar solution. What the water and vinegar solution will do, it will clean off any excess oils, fats and dirt off the eggshell. The procedure goes from the cleansed egg we go to the lightest color which will be our first color which is yellow. I will dip an egg just to show you that really goes into the whole egg. If that was to be finishing my egg and I was going in to the darkest color, I will dip the complete egg in, and there. Then we can take it out. We pat it dry gently and we proceed again with the beeswax. And we make our design again with our tool and we cover with the beeswax, we go to the next color. Pat it dry, take it out, do the next design.

I have an egg here that I have completed in the last stage. As you can see, it is full of beeswax except for the last color there. We do not need to put beeswax on the last color. And then what we do is we light up a candle just gently approach the egg to the side of the flame as the beeswax, we can see that it gets runny and wet. So, that means it is hot. We just wipe it and there it is. And all our colors have been preserved. And once we have removed all the beeswax off the shell of the egg, we then proceed into varnishing it. We varnish it with a floor varnish. We let it dry and then we have two options. We either leave the egg the way it is in its natural state. It is raw. It is full. It will eventually dry up. It does take a few years. Or we have the other option of emptying it.

Now, emptying it is a little bit of a trickier procedure. It requires making a hole in one end of the egg and I will show you one that has already been done here. We cannot even see the hole. It is so minuscule that you cannot even see it. And we have a special pump and we just suck all the yellow and the white and we rinse in the side and it remains just a shell. And that is the end of our procedure. And of course, we must not forget, what do we do with the eggs? We do not keep them. We offer them as a gift to our friends or family and to our neighbors.s


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