Coloring Easter eggs in Ukrainian

Created: 04/15/2022, 20:00

A large group met on Wednesday in the Weßlinger Seehäusl to grow Easter eggs.

Hot wax is applied with a delicate wax pot (picture below right).

Later these areas remain white.

The wax technique can be practiced to perfection, as the two works of art in the picture below on the left show.

© M. Schönwälder(1)/ hvp

Concentrated silence reigned on Wednesday afternoon in the Seehäusl in Weßling.

Around ten people sat with their heads bowed over boiled white eggs to be delicately hand-decorated with wax.

They were guided by a young woman from the Ukraine.

Dying eggs for Easter is also a tradition there.

Weßling - Batik pots, so-called tjantings, are also available in this country.

Hot wax is poured into a metal vessel attached to a handle and the fabric is then worked with it.

In the Ukraine, the eggs are decorated with incomparably more filigree tyantins.

Nataliia Shpuliar, a psychologist from western Ukraine, explained the technique in English.

Where the wax patterns are applied to the eggs, they will no longer take on any color later.

The wax is then scraped off.

This growing of the eggs can be carried out to perfection, as evidenced by the works of art that are already on the table.

The most delicate ornaments and symbols adorn the eggs.

Each region has a different symbolism, explains Nataliia Shpuliar.

Eggs are also waxed in this country.

In Ukraine, coloring eggs seems to be a more important tradition.

"On Easter Saturday, our family gets together to decorate the eggs," explains the young psychologist.

"I just love working with my hands," she says, explaining that this Easter egg art has a long tradition in western Ukraine in particular.

Ulrike Roos and the other participants are impressed.

"Art education has a high priority in schools in Ukraine," says Roos.

The people are particularly skilful, which is also reflected in the painting courses that she organizes with refugees.

In addition to senior citizens, there are also other refugees in the group, albeit from eastern Ukraine, who have never decorated Easter eggs with wax, but are extremely skilled in handling the delicate tool.

Incidentally, the fine jugs cannot be bought in these widths, as Bärbel Dähne-Külzer from NBH Weßling reveals.

"But you can also use needles." Ulrike Roos was happy about the big lap.

"It's just also important to focus on something completely different, to think about something else," she says.