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 ...

Have you ever tried the art of Pysanky? It's egg decorating with a twist! These beautiful Ukrainian Easter eggs were once only made at Easter, but now you can enjoy this unique craft all year along.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...