YARDLEY, Pa -- Basia Andrusko has been writing Pysanky since she was a child, etching ornate designs on everything from chicken, finch and quail eggs to ostrich, emu and rhea eggs. Pysaty comes from ...

Let's talk about a beautiful Easter tradition that many Americans may not know about: painting pysanky eggs! This craft is probably unfamiliar to most families, who have their own Easter egg rituals.

Amanda Ackers remembers when she was 7 years old, sitting with her great-grandmother learning to make her first pysanka. Today she is an adult and her great-grandparents are deceased, but she can ...

This article was published 25/03/2014 (4195 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. The pysanka — the Ukrainian Easter egg — is a familiar symbol of Ukrainian culture and heritage in ...

Traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs have an extra special meaning this year. The beautiful eggs — known as pysanky— are an age-old art form that actually pre-dates Christianity, despite their ...

Looking for a different late fall activity? How about a Pysanky Workshop? The Lackawanna Historical Society will host a Pysanky-making workshop 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 22.

On a sunny afternoon, in what seems like another world, I went to my friend Candace Cook’s house to make Ukrainian Easter eggs. It was a time when you could still visit a friend, though even then ...

While many Ukrainian-Canadians create pysanky every Easter, for artist Joan Brander the brightly coloured and intricately drawn eggs have come to represent a hope for peace in Ukraine at a time when ...