Easter eggs

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Easter eggs are painted in many Polish homes, but are also created by specialized folk artists for decorative purposes. One of them, Nadzieja Hajduczenie’s small workshop.Drawing patterns with melted wax, one of the oldest techniques for decorating Easter eggs. Making of Easter eggs tradition can be traced to early Christians of Mesopotamia, and from there it spread into Eastern Europe. The oldest Polish Easter eggs found come from the end of the 10th century. It is still very popular custom in Poland.Easter eggs are dyed different colors through boiling the egg in natural substances such as, onion peel (brown colour), oak or alder bark or walnut nutshell (black), beet juice (pink), young rye shoots (green) etc. or using artificial colourings. To get the right pattern, you need to draw a pattern with hot wax on the boiled egg before coloring and then dip the egg in the color of your choice. The Easter egg is associated with the symbolism of the egg as the beginning of a new life, and in the Christian tradition it is associated with the resurrection of Christ. Easter eggs, blessed on Easter Saturday, along with other products such as bread, cake, salt, sausage, are eaten for breakfast on Easter Sunday.