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**mem_somerville** @mem_somerville@mastodon.social · Apr 20

mem_somerville @mem_somerville@mastodon.social

Wow, an #Easteregg hundreds of years old!

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lviv-pysanka-worlds-oldest-easter-egg

Live Science · Apr 20Lviv pysanka: World's oldest Easter eggA decorated duck egg discovered in a trash pit is the world's oldest "pysanka."

**Soolah Hoops** @soolahhoops@glasgow.social · Mar 31

Mar 31

Soolah Hoops @soolahhoops@glasgow.social

Some more from yesterday.

Red yellow and brown star pysanka egg with spirals, dots and knots.

Unicorn with a teal background with yellow flowers pysanka.

#pysanky #pysanka #pisanki

**Soolah Hoops** @soolahhoops@glasgow.social · Mar 31

Mar 31

Soolah Hoops @soolahhoops@glasgow.social

It was a weekend of writing pysanky. So many beautiful intentions written. It was really good to write some more in a very small circle of fae friends.
#pysanky #pysanka #pisanki #pisanka #pysankyforukraine #easter #eastereggs #Ukrainian #UkrainianEasteEggs

Pysanky eggs. One with a yellow and green ouroborus and a green yellow and white hearts spirals, dots and lines.

Pysanky eggs. One with a yellow and red phoenix with red hearts and a green yellow and white hearts spirals, dots and lines.

A woman wearing a flower sweater writing pysanky. Eggs, jars of dyes and candles are on a table.

Two women writing pysanky. Colorful eggs and dyes are on a table.

**Soolah Hoops** @soolahhoops@glasgow.social · Mar 23

Mar 23

Soolah Hoops @soolahhoops@glasgow.social

More Pysanka being revealed in yesterday’s workshop in Fredericksburg Virginia.

A woman with an egg over a candle with some kitskas and instructions

A group of people writing pysanky for Ukraine.

A woman melting wax off of her pysanka over a candle flame

#pysanky #pisanki #pysanka

**Soolah Hoops** @soolahhoops@glasgow.social · Mar 23

Mar 23

Soolah Hoops @soolahhoops@glasgow.social

Yesterday was a good day for writing #pysankyforukraine in #fredericksburgva at #eyeclopsestudio I have a fundraiser coming up on April 19th at Royal Rabbit Vineyard!  royalrabbitvineyards.com/event...  #ukraine #pysanky #pysanka #pisanki #pisanka #Ukrainian #eastereggs #Maryland #SlavaUkraini #glorytotheheros #NAFO

A woman writing pysanka with a candle and wax on a blue table cloth.

A man holding the pysanka he is working on with triangles,lines and circles with wax.

A woman writing her pysanka with a kitska. There are pencils on the table, a lit candle and she is wearing a bracelet

A man and a woman writing pysanky eggs with kitskas candles and instructions.

**Soolah Hoops** @soolahhoops@glasgow.social · Mar 23

Mar 23

Soolah Hoops @soolahhoops@glasgow.social

Yesterday was a good day for writing #pysankyforukraine in #fredericksburgva at #eyeclopsestudio I have a fundraiser coming up on April 19th at Royal Rabbit Vineyard!
https://www.royalrabbitvineyards.com/event/spring-fairy-market-2025-at-royal-rabbit-vineyards/

Two women and a man writing pysanky eggs. With a blue table cloth with eggs, paper, pencils, candle and kitskas

A man writing pysanky eggs. With a blue table cloth with eggs, paper, pencils, candle and kitskas

A woman writing pysanky eggs. With a blue table cloth with egg, candle, kitskas and a yellow cup

A woman wearing a gray shirt with a pink and white design and a pink bandanna writing pysanky egg. With a blue table cloth with eggs, paper, wax and kitskas

#ukraine #pysanky #pysanka

**Soolah Hoops** @soolahhoops@pixelfed.social · Feb 23

Feb 23

Soolah Hoops @soolahhoops@pixelfed.social

First Pysanka of 2025. I tested out my batiks and will create several and then do an auction to raise funds for Ukraine. I’ve been feeling the need to create. The art of resistance comes in all forms. #ukraine #pysanky #pisanka #slavaukraini #pysanka #pisanki #art #standwithukraine

#standwithukraine

**Soolah Hoops** @soolahhoops@glasgow.social · Feb 23

Feb 23

Soolah Hoops @soolahhoops@glasgow.social

First Pysanka of 2025. I tested out my batiks and will create several and then do an auction to raise funds for @u24_gov_ua
I’ve been feeling the need to create. The art of resistance comes in all forms. #ukraine #pysanky #pisanka #slavaukraini #pysanka #pisanki #art #StandWithUkraine

**Chad - x** @chad@mstdn.ca · Nov 12, 2024

Nov 12, 2024

Chad - x @chad@mstdn.ca

Yesterday I learned that the #Vegreville #Pysanka rotates in the wind!!

GIF

#alberta

**Eugene McParland** @EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie · May 5, 2024

May 5, 2024

Eugene McParland @EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie

#Pysanka - a traditional decorated egg - is one of the main Ukrainian #Easter symbols and an important feature of Ukrainian #culture heritage.

The word "pysanka" comes from the verb "pysaty", to write. A tradition of making pysanky dates back to the pre-Christian era

Watch (40 Second) Insta Reel Source: #Ukraine

**Euromaidan Press** @EuromaidanPress@mastodon.social · Mar 31, 2024

Mar 31, 2024

Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress@mastodon.social

artist Tetiana Konoval’s pysankas honour nation’s history. Eggs depict Kharkiv liberation, Bakhmut’s spirit, etc. Despiteattacks, she crafts during blackouts in Kyiv shelters.

“Pysankas symbolize life, our lineage,” she says. “Victory” egg honours Armed Forces

#Pysanka

**Andrea Borden, Photographer** @theandreaborden@sunny.garden · Mar 22, 2024

Mar 22, 2024

Andrea Borden, Photographer @theandreaborden@sunny.garden

Absolutely loving these #pysanky eggs, borrowed from a friend's mom, and I love how they made this spread feel so springy and festive.

A horizontal image of a spring flatlay consisting of pysanky eggs, pink and burgundy ribbons, and spring flowers. On the bottom of a low and wide open-weave slatted basket dark purple and light gradients of hellebores curve together with ballet slipper pink tulips. White squill and gypsophilia provide a lightness around the arrangement while red and black pysanky eggs nestle among the stems. Wide pink velvet ribbon leads the eye in and out of the image, entering on the left side and existing on the right.

#Hellebores #SignsOfTheSeason #SignsOfSpring

**Andriy Utkin** @autkin@fosstodon.org · Mar 21, 2024

Mar 21, 2024

Andriy Utkin @autkin@fosstodon.org

#CambridgeUK
1. Ukrainian Easter egg decoration (#Pysanka) workshop is afoot. Want to come? DM me!
2. Seeking to borrow an RJ45 crimping tool.

**Andrea Borden, Photographer** @theandreaborden@sunny.garden · Dec 20, 2023

Dec 20, 2023

Andrea Borden, Photographer @theandreaborden@sunny.garden

Vertical image, click to see the full view.
These gorgeous eggs were borrowed, with the exception of two that were gifted to me long ago.
Easter is far off, but the tradition of using pysanky eggs for holiday ornaments is still a practice among some people, and I love how wonderfully festive and appropriate some of these eggs are for the holidays. It's my goal in the new year to try my hand at some. For now I am enjoying photographing these to help honor this beautiful tradition that will be preserved in part with puzzles and photos- still beautiful to look at, and a fair bit less fragile for the littles, too.

Have you ever done pysanka, or do you know someone who does do it?

A vertical image of an assortment of colorfully dyed pysanka eggs on a swath of deep green cheesecloth in an open-weave shallow basket. In the upper left hand corner and lower right hand corner
a natural wood plank can be seen through the rounded edges of the basket.

#pysanka #pysanky #ukrainianeggs

**Atthis Arts** @atthisarts@firedragons.net · Sep 17, 2023

Sep 17, 2023

Atthis Arts @atthisarts@firedragons.net

Wonderfully interesting update today on Ukrainian egg writing and its connections to tradition, resilience, and hope - a wonderful, short, read. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/embroidered-worlds/posts/3911229 #Pysanka #Ukraine #UkrainianArt #EmbroideredWorlds

Picture of egg detailed with colors and patterns: "A pysanka is more than a beautiful object: It is a story, a wish, or a prayer, with every color & design deep in meaning." - Anna Chychula

**Soolah Hoops** @soolahhoops@glasgow.social · Apr 9, 2023

Apr 9, 2023

Soolah Hoops @soolahhoops@glasgow.social

The pysanky that were written today at @royalrabbitvineyards for Ukraine! All proceeds from this day will be donated to World Central Kitchen to help the Ukrainian people. I am so grateful to Roy and who came out today to participate in this fundraiser!! Today pushes my fundraising donations total to almost $1,000 for WCK for this year! Thank you everyone!! #worldcentralkitchen #worldcentralkitchenukraine #ukraine #pysanky #pysanka #pysankyforukraine #pysankaegg #pisanki #pysankyofmastadon

**Soolah Hoops** @soolahhoops@glasgow.social · Mar 30, 2023

Mar 30, 2023

Soolah Hoops @soolahhoops@glasgow.social

Newest Pisanky that I have written. The first one was just completed and wax removed the other day. I will be at Royal Rabbit Vineyards on April 8th writing pisanka for to raise funds for World Central Kitchen for Ukraine! Check out the detail at https://royalrabbitvineyards.com/event/adult-easter-egg-hunt-at-royal-rabbit-vineyards-2/ to reserve your place today! #pisanka #pysanka #pysankyforukraine #pysanky #art #worldcentralkitchen #ukraine