The Boiky are the third group of Ukrainian mountain dwellers; their lands are divided between Lviv, Ivano Frankivsk and Zakarpattia oblasts.  While they sometimes use the drop-pull technique, most of their pysanky are written with in the usual fashion (linear batik). 

Boiko pysanky are geometric, with simple motifs: S shapes, curls, stars. There is little coloring in--space is filled with dots, dashes, small circles, squiggles and lines. The lines are usually white on a colored background; occasionally a second color might be used, as in this “Windmill” pysanka:  

Or in this starry pysanka:

These are several examples of Boiko pysanky written by my friend Arnie Klein; they were on exhibit in the Detroit Historical Museum’s exhibit about Ukrainian Immigration. There are examples of both linear batik and drop-pull.

These simple pysanky are also Boiko designs, written by a woman who was resettled into Lviv oblast. Note the use of curls, sosonka and dots.

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