Follow the Pysanki

[Tempo]

I thought I would start a separate thread since I did not want to cloud up someone’s family search.



I was reading the recent posts by gary55 re Dunajczuk From Town of Kachin and saw the site that Hannia posted.

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"Currently cleaning out my files. Found this charming site re Vohlyn, that might be of interest:
Volyn п▓п╬п╩п╦пҐя▄ "
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Hannia


While I was there, I came across another site that talked about different Pysanky designs from different regions of Ukraine.

Volynian Pysanky п▓п╬п╩п╦пҐя│я▄п╨я√ п÷п╦я│п╟пҐп╨п╦
This got me thinking.

My mom would make pysanky each Easter season. She would use the same patterns ever year. No doubt she learned them from her mom. The eggs were hard boiled and wax was applied with a pin tipped feather. Edible dyes were used. The decorated eggs were part of the basket that was blessed on Holy Saturday. We ate the eggs on Easter Sunday for breakfast.

As best I can tell the technique was called drop and drag. The design was a wax dot with a circle of “commas”

A similar design can be found at the Drop-Pull picture at the following site:

Decorated Ukrainian Eggs



My questions: What can one learn about the region a person came from by the decorations on the pysanki that their mom or family made? What can be inferred about their ethnic heritage- Boyko, Lemko etc?

We are still searching for Grandma Kociaba’s village. So far,we think she was from Sanok povit or somewhere in the Carpathian foothills. My grandfather's friends from Pavlokoma created the more traditional pysanki patterns that were non-edible.

Any thoughts about following the pysanky?

Tempo

[IreneLviv]

Do you have the pattern of your mom's pysanka? You can send a picture to experts in the Pysanka Museum in Kolomyia.
Our Lviv Arts and Crafts Museum also has a collection of pysankas on display - but it is very small compared to that in Kolomyia.
And then there are many books explaining the meaning of each line and symbol drawn on pysankas,
like Pysanka: Icon of the Universe by Mary Tkachuk, Marie Kischuck and Alice Nicholachuk (printed in Canada).

[Hannia]

Tempo,

Your Mama made LEMKO STYLE PYSANKY , using drop pull pinhead technique.

[Tempo]

I am uploading a photo of the eggs I decorated last year. They are my poor attempt to replicate the designs that I recall seeing my Mom make. The simple dot pattern was one that I recall. The commas in a circle pattern was the most popular. The eggs tasted great even though the designs were mediocre.

I am trying to locate some examples of the true pysanki that the family made.

Tempo

[Hannia]

Yours are Lemko style, no question about it. A few yrs ago I took a workshop at Ukrainian Museum in NYC. Someone in my group w/Lemko roots was interested in reproducing some she had. We got a small lecture on them.

Pysanky take lots of practice. I think you did very well.

п⌡п╣п╪п╨я√п╡я│я▄п╨я√ п÷п╦я│п╟пҐп╨п╦ Lemko Pysanky

Two downloadable books : Lemko Pysanky.
Books - PYSANKARSTVO-Ukrainian Eggs by Maggie Tarris Bauer