40 Days of Pysanky 25: Diasporan Ruzha

This is a classic diasporan design that I used to teach a class of middle school and high school level students in Bloomington last week.

40 Days of Pysanky 24: Orchids

This is a replica of a pysanka from Vira Manko's The Ukrainian Folk Pysanka (Table 28, No. 10), from Kirovohrad Province in south-central Ukraine.

40 Days of Pysanky 23: Forty by Forty

This is a replica of a pysanka from Vira Manko's The Ukrainian Folk Pysanka (Table 32, No. 21), from Zhytomyr Province. This design is a further enumeration on the Sorokoklyn or "40 Wedges" division.

40 Days of Pysanky 22: Flower Sakvy

This is a replica of a pysanka from Vira Manko's The Ukrainian Folk Pysanka (Table 37, No. 31). This design is from Sloboda Annyna, Kharkiv province, the far eastern edge of Ukraine.

40 Days of Pysanky 21: Little Bells

This is a replica of a pysanka from Vira Manko's The Ukrainian Folk Pysanka (Table 36, No. 16), from Chernihiv Province.

40 Days of Pysanky 20: Windmill Wheat

My own riff on a classic diasporan design.

40 Days of Pysanky 19: Pine and Combs

This pysanka is a replica of one featured  in Elyjiw's Sixty Score of Easter Eggs (Table 9, No. 5-6) from Pidliashshia, a region now in Poland.