Take part in our BE the Beautiful Life Event: Ukrainian Pysanky & Other Slavic Traditional Egg Decorating Classes! We are excited to introduce you to the art of Slavic Pysanky and more through 3 hours of in-person, hands-on instruction.
Ukrainian Pysanky Egg Decorating Class
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Ukrainian Easter eggs are known as pysanka (plural: pysanky), which translated means “to write.” Using the traditional wax-resist method, pysanky artisans write with molten beeswax on real egg shells with a kistka stylus then dye the shells in vivid batik colors. Most eggs are decorated with folk and symbolic motifs and designs, in geometric and organic presentation.
Our BE the Beautiful Life class will introduce you to the art of Slavic Pysanky (wax-resist) methods, including proper design, hot wax writing methods, dyeing, and finishing.
Ukrainian Pysanky Egg Decorating Class
Saturday, March 22, 2025
9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Salt Lake City, Utah*
3 hours of in-person, hands-on instruction
Take home 2 or 3 designed, written, and dyed pysanky eggs.
NOTE: Supplies, other than egg shells, provided for classroom only.
Artisan-made Pysanky kits from Vasylkiv, Ukraine, available for purchase:
Each classic kit contains hand-decorated wood handle/brass funnel hot waxing kistky in fine, medium, heavy, and extra heavy size (tip end diameters in 0.2mm; 0.3mm; 0.4mm; & 0.5mm); 4 various gauge cleaning wires with wooden heads; 2 beeswax cakes in black and natural; 1 hand-poured natural beeswax egg-shaped candle; & 6 packets non-edible batik dye powder.
Slavic Traditional Egg Decorating Class
Friday, April 10, 2025
While the wax-resist, intricately-detailed pysanky has become the most common egg decorating tradition in the Slavic countries, various countries have produced their own egg decorating styles of writing, dyeing, and other decorating methods such as Croatian Penganje and Pisanica; Polish Krashanky; Hungarian Tojáscipelés (or egg-shoeing); Slovakian Kraslice Drotárstvo (wire-wrapped eggs), straw-pasted eggs, and the Madeira method of perforating egg shells like lace.
Our second BE the Beautiful Life class will introduce you to various traditional Slavic egg decorating methods, including Croatian Pisance (drop-pull wax-resist) method; the Slovakian Madeira (perforating) method, and Lithuanian Margučiai (scratching) method, including basic instruction on proper design, hot wax pin drawing methods, drilling, etching, dyeing, and finishing. The Ukrainian Pysanky Class is a not a prerequisite to this course.
Slavic Traditional Egg Decorating Class
Thursday, April 10, 2025
6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Salt Lake City, Utah*
3 hours of in-person, hands-on instruction
Take home 2 to 3 designed, waxed, perforated, etched, and dyed Easter eggs.
NOTE: Supplies, other than egg shells, provided for classroom only.
Artisan-made Slavic tools assembled kits from Vasylkiv, Ukraine, available for purchase:
Each classic kit contains 2 hand-decorated wood handle drop-pull pin-head tools in 2 gauges; 2 beeswax cakes in black and natural; 1 small wax melting pot; & 6 packets non-edible batik dye powder.
*Upon purchase, we will send you an email with more details about the class and its location.
