[Sca-cooks] Pysanky Eggs

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

If Pearl Paint exists in your neighborhood, they have kits.  Or try your local crafts shop, especially around Easter.

Regards,
Brekke
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Radei Drchevich<mailto:radei at moscowmail.com> 
  To: Cooks within the SCA<mailto:sca-cooks at ansteorra.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Pysanky Eggs


  can anyone tell me where I can get the equiptment to do pysanky?  I have
  been looking for a stylist for a very long time.

  joy

  radei

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "jehan.yves"
    To: "Cooks within the SCA"
    Subject: [Sca-cooks] Pysanky Eggs
    Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:23:09 -0400

    >
    >
    >
    > Kiri-san,
    > Teofilia tried to send this to you directly, but we got a bounce
    > message back, so I decided to send it here:
    >
    > > Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 22:17:09 -0400
    > > To: Elaine Koogler > > From: Nancy Karat-May
    > > Subject: Pysanky eggs
    > >
    > > Heard you were looking for documentation for Pysanky eggs.
    > > "POLISH CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS, & FOLKLORE " BY Sophie Hodorowicz
    > > Knab , Hippocrene Books, New York, revised edition , 1996
    > > page 100 "Pisanki were batik style eggs on which wax was
    > > carefully supplied in patterns with a stylus before they were
    > > placed in colored dyes. Other styles were known as Oklejane and
    > > Naleplanki, when the outside of the egg was decorated with a
    > > variety of materials such as colored paper or straw.
    > > Their origin can also be attributed to the early mystery plays,
    > > which began in Italy and spread slowly throughout Europe, and
    > > were especially popular in Poland during the time of Zygmunt III
    > > (1566-1632) "
    > > page 105 "As a symbol of fertility, the egg played a critical
    > > role in almost all customs and traditions throughout the year.
    > > Up until the middle 1800,s the elaborately decorated and
    > > ornamental eggs called Pisanki served as gifts in the Polish
    > > wooing and courtship process."
    > > Page 107"The oldest written knowledge of Pisanki at the grave
    > > side was documented in the life of St. Hedwig, which was penned
    > > after her canonization in 1267. The many miraculous healings
    > > attributed to this saint were documented by the wife of King
    > > Henryk Brodaty. who told the following story: When the son of a
    > > prominent judge was still unable to walk at eight years of age,
    > > his mother brought the boy to the grave of St. Hedwig in her arms
    > > and was praying to St. Hedwig to heal him when, lo!, a miracle
    > > happened. In the presence of the priest who baptized him and the
    > > abbess of the monastery, the boy suddenly; stood up, took an egg
    > > that lay before him and walked around the saint's grave. The
    > > abbess took other decorated eggs and threw them at the feet of
    > > the young boy, compelling him to walk further from the tomb.
    > > This miracle is said to have happened near Easter between 1274
    > > and 1287."
    > >
    > > Author Rev. Czestaw Krysa, who is Associate Professor at the
    > > SS.Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan, is an
    > > authority on Polish folklore and winner of the Oskar Kolberg
    > > award for 1991, Poland's most prized award in ethnography and
    > > folklore.
    > > Teofilia Karatkiewicz (Nancy Karat-May)
    >
    > JehanYves
    >
    >
    >
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