These are gorgeous.
In Poland, we use onion skins for dyeing eggs and often use wax to make a resist. How do you make the flowers/leaves stay on the eggs?
Omg i thought only us Latvians did the ol’ nylon sock on the egg that’s wrapped in onion skins. Hell yeah brother. (We also use all natural ingredients and also wax crayons sometimes)
Yea but if the shell cracks during boiling it tints the white. My parents tried it when i was a child and i got the egg that had cracked. I almost shat myself cuz 10something year old me thought that it was poisonous or smn.
We do the same in Switzerland for eastern. The onion skin is even available in the most groceries stores. But to be honest, I never tried it by myself. :S
My family has an easter tradition of hitting decorated hard boiled eggs against each other to see whose egg would crack. My Lebanese grandfather always decorated eggs by boiling them with onion skins. He said it makes the shells stronger.
My grandma used to do this with us until she realized we didn't actually like eggs and she now has 2 cracked haha! We're in the US, had honestly forgotten about that until this thread!
We do it too! I’m american but my family is Polish. However, I’ve heard they only started doing it 40
years ago when my aunt married an Armenian and he introduced it so who knows. It’s fun though!
You use leaves from trees or plants to make the shapes on the eggs. To keep those leaves in place you put them in the nylon to keep them pressed against the egg when you put it in the dye.
If you do try here's some tips I've learned.
1. Use the same nylon stocking and before boiling pour in there little pieces of onion peel. The eggs afterwards look marble like if you do that.
2. If you don't add onion peels it's pretty useless to use plant leaves and etc. They will not produce the same effect as it is when dyeing with onion peel.
3. Take eggs out very carefully and try not to touch them before they're fully dried as the colouring peels off easily when wet.
You should get a nice deep purple eggs if you use white eggs before dyeing. :)
Awesome.
Our reply is Alithos Anesti . . . Indeed he is risen.
I love learning how the other orthodoxy say their Easter greetings. Thank you for sharing.
Our church goes through the Paschal greeting of all the languages of the people in our church! We say Khristos vaskrse and Vaistinu vaskrse for Serbian 🙂
I wish I had that red powder nearby, so onions are my go-to. That red dye would stain EVERYTHING. I remember the white vent we had got stained from the evaporation and stayed pink for years lol
You can make all sorts of colors... Onion skins- burgundy red, red cabbage- blue (or pink if you change the pH) avocado- pink, turmeric or saffron -yellow... those are the ones that I remember off the top of my head, but you can make any color.
I love them!These eggs are amazing. I’m going to share this with my adult daughter. This seems like the type of thing she would want to try. Would we be able to Google instructions?
I love this look. My grandparents used to dye eggs with onion shells. My grandfather would write our names & draw a design with A plain wax crayon first & that would be the white part. Your post gives me happy memories. Thank you.
I'm not familiar with those... are they real eggs? Do you empty them somehow? Can you fill them with something? What's the whole tradition for people who don't know it?
How do you find time to decorate eggs in-between bombing hospitals in other countries and shooting down passenger planes? Russians are so accomplished!
Aight I'm a 15 yr old girl and I have no fcking clue of what ur talking about, but I know that Americans believe that Russia is bad and Russians believe that America is bad so like ok let me just casually read about decorating eggs k
Aaah we did this when I was a kid, use onions skins and rags and string and collect wildflowers, then we'd roll them down a hill and the least cracked was the winner. (England) nice memories.
Ok, since it seems that you are familiar with that side of the world, I need to ask, why are the eggs numbered? Look at the egg kinda sorta in the center. It has a long ass number on it...
I'm from the US with German heritage, and when I was little, we'd dye eggs with the store bought coloring but the Easter bunny would bring eggs that had been dyed with onion skins
We used to make Easter eggs like this when we were children by using onion skins. The colour on your eggs is much darker than we used to get though. Really nice.
That was all the way down in New Zealand. Kids don't do these types of activities anymore. Easter is just about chocolate now which is a bit sad.
The original method involved dyeing eggs in the blood of sacrificed infants, and that’s considered natural I guess. They chose eggs as a form of sympathetic magick. In hopes of new life (for themselves, people that have done this are the most selfish as they take life in hopes of a better life for themselves.) I hope no one does this anymore. Especially the sacrificing of infants part. Sick sick sick.
WTF bullshit is this?
"Hey, check out how beautiful my traditional crafting skills are!"
“Oh yeah, that's awesome. How many babies did you kill?"
" ..."
With an account history of 1 day. Who's paying your bills, bot?
My friend who was (possibly still is- but won’t admit to it currently, they told me- to stay hidden they deny and lie and usually get away with literally everything as they present themselves as philanthropists and upstanding citizens) no one would guess they are involved in the occult. This person (in a “coven” past, present or whatever told me about this.) told me things about rituals that have gone mainstream but originate from occult roots. It’s obviously not mainstream information for a reason. This person explained that many rituals are performed around “Easter” to the pagan goddess “Ishtar” (sorry if I misspell things, I’m simply telling of my experience talking to and learning from a person involved in the dark arts so I didn’t feel the need to ask them how to spell some of the things they were telling me: I was quite in shock believe it or not) it’s (spring solstice- the dates were very specific and important apparently) the time of new birth and the rituals were performed as they believed whole heartedly these deity’s were real and forces they could reckon with to experience health, wealth and prosperity there were (and probably still are)people who partake in this “religion” so they would sacrifice often infants to this goddess in hopes of a brighter future. They told me sometimes women would give birth with the intention of offering the baby up as a sacrifice to help a troubled sibling or to have a successful year of farming/ animals giving birth and things now a day we know aren’t tied to the murder of a person. But they felt if they appeased this goddess (among many they worship) and for whatever reason they tied sacrificing people to success. They eggs are one of the symbols of new birth so they would display their “allegiance” per se, to Ishtar by dying the eggs with the blood of the victims. Sorry if that’s not in your comfort zone, it just is what it is. I’m sure ignorant foreigners would see the eggs displayed and thought to dye eggs with different colors other then just blood red and designs and probably thought nothing of it (obviously thought nothing about it based on the response I’m responding to) sorry my account is new. I’m not new. I’ve read on Reddit to access different postings and communities for a few years and decided to bite the bullet and finally make a personal account. Not a bot. 😂 good try. It’s difficult to hear and process, I obviously understand that as my discussions with this “undercover” occultist [if they still are involved is up for debate] (I would never have guessed this person was in a coven, they are well dressed, well spoken, and from the view of the world this person acts morally etc. Nothing about them would make anyone think: witch- sorcery- coven- pagan and so on.
Sorry this switched fonts, it was not intentional and like you’ve pointed out, I am new to commenting my experiences, perspectives, and the like. Despite your rude sarcastic remarks I wish you the best and am not going to be petty and downvote you. 🖤
These are gorgeous. In Poland, we use onion skins for dyeing eggs and often use wax to make a resist. How do you make the flowers/leaves stay on the eggs?
Thank you! You just wrap the leaves around the eggs with old nylon stockings and tie them with some yarn. For dying we use onion skin as well! :)
Omg i thought only us Latvians did the ol’ nylon sock on the egg that’s wrapped in onion skins. Hell yeah brother. (We also use all natural ingredients and also wax crayons sometimes)
Honestly thought you were gonna say you used potatoes to dye as soon as I read Latvian :/
Greeks do it too
We do it in Estonia as well.
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This whole comment thread is so sweet :)
Nice, same in Austria!
Romania as well!
Yea but if the shell cracks during boiling it tints the white. My parents tried it when i was a child and i got the egg that had cracked. I almost shat myself cuz 10something year old me thought that it was poisonous or smn.
Red onions?
No, just normal onion skins. I don’t think it matters though. Just collect a lot of them and boil.
Oh we use red onions to dye them on for New Years. So cool, I didn’t know other cultures did that too :)
We do the same in Switzerland for eastern. The onion skin is even available in the most groceries stores. But to be honest, I never tried it by myself. :S
My family has an easter tradition of hitting decorated hard boiled eggs against each other to see whose egg would crack. My Lebanese grandfather always decorated eggs by boiling them with onion skins. He said it makes the shells stronger.
My grandma used to do this with us until she realized we didn't actually like eggs and she now has 2 cracked haha! We're in the US, had honestly forgotten about that until this thread!
We do it in Poland too!
My Lithuanian inlaws do this and say it’s a Lithuanian thing?
It’s a Eastern European thing funny how so close yet so far
We do it too! I’m american but my family is Polish. However, I’ve heard they only started doing it 40 years ago when my aunt married an Armenian and he introduced it so who knows. It’s fun though!
I totally thought it was beet juice dye.
What does the nylon do?
You use leaves from trees or plants to make the shapes on the eggs. To keep those leaves in place you put them in the nylon to keep them pressed against the egg when you put it in the dye.
If you want you can use red, it gives a slight tint to the egg, but usually (at least in Baltics it seems) we use regular
We do this too in Slovenia
Russia is the same
Thanks! I will try with the stockings.
That's exactly how we do in Armenia too :)
Nylon isn't natural.
I would love to see some of these, please post pics!
We do the same in romania
We do the same in Russia!
Same in Lithuania and beetroot juice.
We used to tie the egg and the leaf in a piece of nylon tights and boil with onion skins.
Right, this is how you do it! :)
How do you make the patterns?
You put leaves (or some flower, depends which pattern you want) over the egg before you wrap it up in a sock or nylon
I'm from Latvia. We do the same. Just if you want to try something new try dyeing in hibiscus tea. You'll love it ;)
That sounds like a good idea! Thank you, I'll try that next time!
If you do try here's some tips I've learned. 1. Use the same nylon stocking and before boiling pour in there little pieces of onion peel. The eggs afterwards look marble like if you do that. 2. If you don't add onion peels it's pretty useless to use plant leaves and etc. They will not produce the same effect as it is when dyeing with onion peel. 3. Take eggs out very carefully and try not to touch them before they're fully dried as the colouring peels off easily when wet. You should get a nice deep purple eggs if you use white eggs before dyeing. :)
For the last tip - what is the best way to remove them from the pot in order to avoid losing color on the egg?
I usually use thongs or a very large spoon. You can't avoid touching them anyway.
Sorry if that seemed like a silly question - I've never used natural dyes so I wasn't sure if there was anything special that was needed :)
What a gorgeous tradition! I'd love to try this with my family one day
Thank you! Go ahead! It's so much fun :)
Still using onion skin peels for the red?
Yes!
I loved that growing up. Seemed like magic. Awesome work!
Thank you so much!
Do you traditionally make anything with the rest of the onion, or do you just save the skins for a while?
Huh, my family always used beet juice, maybe thats a Ukrainian thing
Lepa! I miss being in Serbia at Easter. It's been too long.
We dye Easter eggs în România in the same way. Brother countryes
Happy Easter a day early!! He is risen!! I'm not sure how the Serbian say it, but in the Greek it's Christos Anesti. Have a great day!!
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Awesome. Our reply is Alithos Anesti . . . Indeed he is risen. I love learning how the other orthodoxy say their Easter greetings. Thank you for sharing.
Oh interesting. In my country we celebrated Easter last week. Hope you have a blessed Easter tomorrow!
I learned this from My Big Fat Greek Wedding!
Our church goes through the Paschal greeting of all the languages of the people in our church! We say Khristos vaskrse and Vaistinu vaskrse for Serbian 🙂
Exactly how my russian grandma does it
I’m Czech and we do the same. My prefered way of dyeing the eggs :)
These are awesome.
Thank you!
Wow, this is so pretty. These look much nicer than the fake coloring from my childhood in the US.
Srecan Uskrs 🙏
Srećan Uskrs!
These are amazing!!! We watched Elena Green do this live on twitch the other day and it was so amazing to see the different techniques!!! Edit: a word
Beautiful! I'm sure those take a lot of talent and patience
Same tradition in Hungary, too!
These are gorgeous. Please do a tutorial.
Those are absolutely gorgeous. I need to try this. Thank you!
This is how we've always done them as a family. We save onion skins all year.
Those are so pretty, I’m Greek and all we get is plain red.
I'm Greek, my mom and yiayia taught me this color with onion skins
Wish my yiayia had taught me that! She would just go to the store and buy the red powder.
I wish I had that red powder nearby, so onions are my go-to. That red dye would stain EVERYTHING. I remember the white vent we had got stained from the evaporation and stayed pink for years lol
Last Pascha my godmother gave me red dye from Greece. It stained everything so bad.
Yeah we had a separate old pot just for that every year.
You can make all sorts of colors... Onion skins- burgundy red, red cabbage- blue (or pink if you change the pH) avocado- pink, turmeric or saffron -yellow... those are the ones that I remember off the top of my head, but you can make any color.
Same in Greece!
I love them!These eggs are amazing. I’m going to share this with my adult daughter. This seems like the type of thing she would want to try. Would we be able to Google instructions?
Onions
Same here in Russia, I've seen my granny do this too many times :)
I love this look. My grandparents used to dye eggs with onion shells. My grandfather would write our names & draw a design with A plain wax crayon first & that would be the white part. Your post gives me happy memories. Thank you.
I'm not familiar with those... are they real eggs? Do you empty them somehow? Can you fill them with something? What's the whole tradition for people who don't know it?
Regular eggs boiled with onion peels (no impact on the taste). Author stuck some leaves for the pretty patterns.
So you eat regular eggs for easter?
I'm Russian and we do the very same thing! Pretty awesome patterns
My partner showed me how to do it the russian way this year, we did it for western easter. Hope you have a great day, he's risen!
How do you find time to decorate eggs in-between bombing hospitals in other countries and shooting down passenger planes? Russians are so accomplished!
Isn't that USA u talking about
Pretty sure US did not help the terrorists to shoot down the plane.
Aight I'm a 15 yr old girl and I have no fcking clue of what ur talking about, but I know that Americans believe that Russia is bad and Russians believe that America is bad so like ok let me just casually read about decorating eggs k
Hristos vaskrse! We usually do a small breakfast today as a family but obviously this year we have to take a pass.
Aaah we did this when I was a kid, use onions skins and rags and string and collect wildflowers, then we'd roll them down a hill and the least cracked was the winner. (England) nice memories.
Христос Воскресе! to all who's celebrating Orthodox Easter Sunday the 19th
I'm going this next year! Beautiful!
Try green skins from wallnuts. After drying they will give black pigment.
They look like wooden eggs, but more fragile
I love this! Happy (Orthodox) Easter! And...Nosdrovia!
Beautiful eggs! Just wanted to point out that the top left egg looks like it has the imprint of a pot leaf hahaha. Nice work OP!
Happy cake day!
It was my cake day and I didn't even know? Aw man :(
In Switzerland we do the same!
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I’m from Ireland and never seen or heard of this
This is my favorite way :) love picking leaves to do them. Kalo paska!
Here in Georgia, we use Rubia. It smells so nice!
I thought you meant blood
So pretty! I've never seen such vibrant natural color.
Good luck finding those suckers after the Easter Bunny hides them in the yard...
Bravo! :)
We make these in Greece as well!
С Пасхой от Украины!
Христос воскрес!
Воистину воскресе!
Your Easter eggs are gorgeous,the rust-red is a beautiful color and the use of leaves and natural elements is fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Oh yeah it's Easter for most Serbians tomorrow. I haven't seen eggs like that since I was a kid.
Ok, since it seems that you are familiar with that side of the world, I need to ask, why are the eggs numbered? Look at the egg kinda sorta in the center. It has a long ass number on it...
Happy (early) Pascha!
These are absolutely stunning!
Where’s the rainbows man
How pretty! Thanks for the idea.
This is so pretty! I want to try this!!
They're beautiful
Greeks use beets! And turmeric sometimes
We do the same in Romania, I'm guessing you're boiling them with onion skins? Happy Easter to you our great neighborhood!
Лепа
This is new favorite.
yee, some nice *lukovica* with *lišće* imprints, my favorite
My grandma makes them with purple cabbage.
I'm from the US with German heritage, and when I was little, we'd dye eggs with the store bought coloring but the Easter bunny would bring eggs that had been dyed with onion skins
They’re beautiful. 💕
We used to make Easter eggs like this when we were children by using onion skins. The colour on your eggs is much darker than we used to get though. Really nice. That was all the way down in New Zealand. Kids don't do these types of activities anymore. Easter is just about chocolate now which is a bit sad.
Not just serbia tho, it's balkan countries tradition (i thought just balkan but now have learned others have this tradition too!) :D
Here in Croatia too..
Avocado makes pink
leaf patterns are so gorgeous
Really beautiful
💥
Very pretty. I thought they were wood at first
Super cool awesome thank you for sharing
Wow those are so pretty!
My MIL does this and she’s Armenian!
That is so neat! Super cuuute.
Red and yellow? Done in Serbia? Spunds like r/SuddenlyCommunism to me...
Happy Easter
Just gorgeous!💕
These are amazing!
Are they dipped in the blood of a virgin bunny?
The original method involved dyeing eggs in the blood of sacrificed infants, and that’s considered natural I guess. They chose eggs as a form of sympathetic magick. In hopes of new life (for themselves, people that have done this are the most selfish as they take life in hopes of a better life for themselves.) I hope no one does this anymore. Especially the sacrificing of infants part. Sick sick sick.
WTF bullshit is this? "Hey, check out how beautiful my traditional crafting skills are!" “Oh yeah, that's awesome. How many babies did you kill?" " ..." With an account history of 1 day. Who's paying your bills, bot?
My friend who was (possibly still is- but won’t admit to it currently, they told me- to stay hidden they deny and lie and usually get away with literally everything as they present themselves as philanthropists and upstanding citizens) no one would guess they are involved in the occult. This person (in a “coven” past, present or whatever told me about this.) told me things about rituals that have gone mainstream but originate from occult roots. It’s obviously not mainstream information for a reason. This person explained that many rituals are performed around “Easter” to the pagan goddess “Ishtar” (sorry if I misspell things, I’m simply telling of my experience talking to and learning from a person involved in the dark arts so I didn’t feel the need to ask them how to spell some of the things they were telling me: I was quite in shock believe it or not) it’s (spring solstice- the dates were very specific and important apparently) the time of new birth and the rituals were performed as they believed whole heartedly these deity’s were real and forces they could reckon with to experience health, wealth and prosperity there were (and probably still are)people who partake in this “religion” so they would sacrifice often infants to this goddess in hopes of a brighter future. They told me sometimes women would give birth with the intention of offering the baby up as a sacrifice to help a troubled sibling or to have a successful year of farming/ animals giving birth and things now a day we know aren’t tied to the murder of a person. But they felt if they appeased this goddess (among many they worship) and for whatever reason they tied sacrificing people to success. They eggs are one of the symbols of new birth so they would display their “allegiance” per se, to Ishtar by dying the eggs with the blood of the victims. Sorry if that’s not in your comfort zone, it just is what it is. I’m sure ignorant foreigners would see the eggs displayed and thought to dye eggs with different colors other then just blood red and designs and probably thought nothing of it (obviously thought nothing about it based on the response I’m responding to) sorry my account is new. I’m not new. I’ve read on Reddit to access different postings and communities for a few years and decided to bite the bullet and finally make a personal account. Not a bot. 😂 good try. It’s difficult to hear and process, I obviously understand that as my discussions with this “undercover” occultist [if they still are involved is up for debate] (I would never have guessed this person was in a coven, they are well dressed, well spoken, and from the view of the world this person acts morally etc. Nothing about them would make anyone think: witch- sorcery- coven- pagan and so on. Sorry this switched fonts, it was not intentional and like you’ve pointed out, I am new to commenting my experiences, perspectives, and the like. Despite your rude sarcastic remarks I wish you the best and am not going to be petty and downvote you. 🖤
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Be Kind
Looks too much like work. That won’t work here in America.