South Jersey Pysanky
Millville, NJ
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South Jersey Pysanky was founded in 2018. I have been actively making Pysanky or Ukrainian eggs for over 20 years. As a child, I was taught by my aunt and fell in love with the craft. The symbols, imagery, and process are so beautiful.
Pysanky is a process of dying the egg with a wax resist batik method. Preserving each layer of color from the next, with beeswax. Once your design is complete you melt the wax off with a flame to reveal the colorful design underneath.
Creating Pysanky gives me such joy, it’s thrilling to be able to share this art form with new people who may not have encountered it before. Pysanky is such a beautiful piece of traditional Ukrainian history, and it deserves to be preserved.