Pysanky is an art form that requires much foresight into the overall color scheme and design. It is also a patience game that demands a person’s complete attention.

When her children were growing up, Terese Wallack Waldron would spend Good Friday teaching them the fine points of pysanky, the Ukrainian art of decorating eggs for Easter. After one such session i… ...

DALLAS, Pa. — It's a centuries-old Ukrainian tradition known as Pysanky. "The eggs go back about 2,000-plus years. The Ukraine area was originally pagan or non-Christian. So, a lot of the ...

Members of the Macungie Grange tried their hand at Ukrainian egg decorating last week, after a demonstration by Kathy and Mark Lichtenwalner. Kathy said she became interested in the art because her… ...

Pysanky (pysanka is singular) are painstakingly decorated eggs in a prism of colors resembling the patterns seen inside a kaleidoscope.

Each of the five regions of Ukraine had its own unique traditions in decorating pysanky — with differences in colors, patterns and symbolism. Here’s a brief overview of regional styles: ...