The Ukrainian Pulse 0103: The Art of Making Pysanky

[@nancyreinhardt5461]

So happy I came upon this as a refresher course ,Natalya. Memories of you bringing food to the ticket booth in Sloatsburg for your husband and all ticket sellers! Great video. Stay well. Nancy Reinhardt

[@DarcySteele]

Very well done Interview! The interviewer asked really helpful questions and the presenter is very knowledgeable. I have all my materials and I’m starting tomorrow :-)

[@TheNickybear70]

This woman is an absolute wealth of information I have learnt so much about the Ukrainian culture. How poignant are these meanings now but I get the feeling the Ukrainian people are as resilient as the history of their most beautiful art so I hope they will stand strong 💪 🇺🇦

[@catnap387]

Ukrainian pysanky show a beautiful aspect of the richness of Ukrainian culture

[@sweetteawhimsy3998]

Awesome video!!

[@larainememola4374]

omg!!!!! amazing!!!!! great job Natalie!!!!!

[@josephjude1290]

Great video on our eastern european culture.

[@miranatill6454]

Solche Eier gibt es auch in Ostdeutschland 😍

[@TheWanderingHeather]

So fascinating. I am just learning how to write pysanky. I have a flock of hens that lay blue/green and dark olive eggs. I was wondering if there are colours I shouldn't use because they will be too light. Any thoughts on this? Thank you!

[@TheCitizen4truth]

I would use the light blue green eggs. The dark olive you can do with acrylic paint using the pull drop method.

[@frankjoya4234]

beautiful. I will try it

[@susancherry2913]

The eggs are beautiful! You could leave the eggs full because after a couple of years the insides turn into dust, and if the egg were to break at that point there will be no smell. This way you don’t have holes marring your beautiful creation. When I shake mine I can hear a gentle swish of dust inside and they are less heavy.

[@Sqwizgaar]

That depends on how you finish the egg. Some finishes will seal the egg surface completely and the moisture inside the egg cannot escape. Sometimes the insides will actually spoil and willl create gasses and crack or even explode the egg. Its not a common thing but it does happen so its a risk to consider depending how/if you seal the egg with a finish.

[@Master_Blackthorne]

Unfortunately store bought eggs are frozen and sometimes cleaned with harsh detergent. Unless you know someone who has chickens, it's better to blow the pysanka out after the varnish dries.

[@bebeveritas7306]

Wonderful video! Great tips! Thank you! I have seen demos where the egg contents are not emptied but the eggs put on a special rack and baked in an oven for a very long time so that the egg contents are disintegrated. Is that a method that is not preferred any longer? Thank you!

[@jessicahope3788]

I'm trying to find the blog for the woman who is mentioned in the video at 14:06. I don't know how to properly spell her name and just looking up Pysanky blogs brings up a thousand of them. Would anyone have her name spelled properly or even the link to her blog? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance!

[@pysankar]

Her name is Luba Petrusha. Tried twice to put the link here to her blog but for some reason when I come back to this video, my reply was gone.

[@karosparrow]

​@@pysankarThank you so much! I was hoping someone here would answer that question. Just found the blog, which is pysanky (dot) info (slash) pysanky. So thrilled to look into all of the symbolism to use in my own pysanky.😊🥚

[@gancarzpl]

Ukraine is the youngest, 35 years old, state in Europe, there was no Ukrainians during pagan times. It as ridiculous as talking about American Europeans 2/3000 years ago. Lemkos are not Ukrainian they are separate national group.

[@catnap387]

What NONSENSE!!!! Ukrainians have lived on Ukrainian lands for hundreds of years. They were on their lands even when they were occupied by other countries and maintained their traditions and culture even when their enemies tried to destroy their way of life and their heritage. Ukrainians now have their own state and don't need foreign chauvinists to tell them they did not exist. In this video we have an example of Ukrainian culture that Poles did not manage to eliminate.

[@gancarzpl]

@@catnap387 Are you high on Cat Nap? Because of Poland art of pisanki and the Ukrainian language, culture survived in Ukraine.

[@catnap387]

@@gancarzpl Really!! Well I don't know where Poles disappeared to when Poland was wiped off the map for 150 years! Poles are under the grandiose impression that they are saviours of the world. Well sorry to say that Ukrainians are the people who saved themselves from Pilsudski's Polonisation in the 1930's in spite of Polish efforts. It is the Ukrainian spirit that has withstood all kinds of pressures from their foreign occupants. Don't flatter yourselves!!

[@susanfarley1332]

Odd, I was learning some of Ukraine 's history and it never said Ukraine is only 35 years old. And all of the people in that area of the world were pagan before Christianity. Nobody was Christian before Christ was born.

[@gancarzpl]

​@@susanfarley1332 You nailed it and give yourself an answer by saying “Nobody was Christian before Christ was born”. This is why Ukraine is only 35 years old, anybody who is saying differently is wrong.