In most places chicken eggs are painted ,but also chick , duck , pidgin and even ostrich eggs are being used. Usually, women start painting the eggs on  Thursday or sometimes on  Friday, just before Easter.

 

The woman is putting clean bee wax an earth pot and places it by the fire, so it can melt. After it is melted you put a bit of crushed in coal in it. At first she cleans and  dries the eggs and  places them by the fire to warm up. The paints are also placed by the fire.

 

Any egg, that is about to be painted, is being boiled in yellow paint, then in red, black paint and so on. Eggs that are being boiled in yellow are being pooled out at one pint with a ladle or a wooden spoon and it is being put in a certain place until it is dry.

Now, the peasant woman is taking the chisita (the special tool like a pen) in one hand and in the other hand she holds the egg. She starts to put the chisita in melted wax then she starts painting the egg with wax .Then she puts the egg in red paint and when she pulls it out the egg is  already red, except the drawing made with wax which is yellow . If the egg must be separated by a white line between it's two areas, the line is also drawed with wax, before it's being put in the red paint.

 

After the egg sits in the red paint for 15 minutes, it's being pulled out and it's being dried. Now, the peasant woman is writing with chisita again, filling the red spots with wax in order to remain red

 

Now, the egg is being put in black wax, until the places that are not written with wax are being filled. After several minutes, the rest of the wax is being erased. Now the egg is being rubbed with butter and cleaned with a peace of woolen material . The egg would have three colors. The many the colors, the harder it is to paint them.

Tradition,pasion,a way of life

Easter painted eggs

The egg painting technique

Stages of the egg painting