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

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  > 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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