A beautiful old tradition of dyeing Easter eggs using onion skins and leaves to create natural patterns [📹klosterbaldegg]

My kids did this (I helped a bit)

These are mine.

My paternal Elders taught pisanki to the younger family members during scheduled vacations.

Wow 😲 Beautiful 😍

the tradition of Easter eggs comes from early Christians celebrating Easter. Eggs were seen as a symbol of new life, just like Jesus’ resurrection. People started decorating or dyeing eggs because: Eggs were often forbidden during fasting (Lent), so when Easter came, people had a lot of eggs to eat and celebrate with. They began coloring them to make them special and mark the celebration. The color red was one of the earliest, symbolizing Jesus’ blood, and later people added more bright colors for joy and festivity.

Love these!!! Some traditional eggs that I made a few years back before teaching the technique to my students… We experimented with using garden herbs, leaves & flowers for the designs & onion skins, cabbage & a few food dyes..

I love old European artistic traditions 😭🩵

It is sad that I'm shocked that there are still nuns in Switzerland Of course, I am very happy that they are

In some parts of Greece, seaweed is also used for dyeing the Easter eggs. The result is a purple-like color.

Such a timeless and magical way to welcome the season, they look absolutely stunning

We are doing it the same in Romania 🇷🇴for ages... 🥰

This is how Latvian families have been doing it ever since. Just by using nature the result is amazing.

This is a beautiful work of art

Beautiful.. we have this tradition too with the onion skin. But this is a nicer idea..

This was a big thing in the north east of England - I used to do it with my grandma when I was little (just with the onions, not the leaves)

This is the first year I have not made them. Forgot to save the onion skins. If I mix the red and brown skins used to get deeper colour. Used to save skins in a plastic bag through the year. 🤣

Meine Mutter und die Tanten haben uns das gezeigt, wir haben die Eier noch Zwiebel-gefärbt. Und dann in den Wald, die Eier in einen Ameisenhügel drücken und warten. Das Gift, das die empörten Ameisen drauf spritzten, hat schöne Muster gemacht. Das war ca. 1960.

I am commenting simply because I want to encourage more content like this, that is positive, wholesome and educational.

We used to do this as kids

@goodell2017 Looks like a cut stocking tied to the egg

@Domi27_ Roman Catholic Easter tradition in Poland 🇵🇱. Decorating eggs and blessing food on Holy Saturday. The Paschal Triduum.

Are the eggs Hardboiled complete, or have they been pierced and had their contents blown out.

Are you sure those aren’t the nuns’ old pantyhose?

what beautiful people. God is great

@HopiWorldOrder Wow gorgeous

@HilaryBurrage We used to dye them with onion skins, taught by Granny in Carlisle - but these are a new level of creativity. Might just nip out for a leaf or two 😉

Wie schön!xxx

This is how my family always made Easter eggs, from the Latvian tradition 🐣 🇱🇻 🌷 What a lovely video to see nuns making them this way

What a clever idea! They created some very unique patterns.

My mum did this when I was a kid

God bless these sisters!

But are the eggs edible after that process? Or have they already had their innards blown out? Bewildered here. 🤷‍♀️

Neat - art is something I enjoy but have zero time for ..... I should have appreciated it more when I was a kid. I know a man who made LOTS of money in art. LOTS. Did I say a lot of money?

I'd love to do this with my daughter someday 💖