The pysanky below are taken from Odarka Onyshchuk’s “Symbolism of the Ukrainian Pysanka,” and are mostly of the drop-pull variety, although a couple do employ the linear batik method of wax application.  The designs are straightforward, with almost all being two color eggs.  I wrote several of these examples on brown chicken eggs, although they should properly have been white, as brown eggs were not very commonly used in the writing of pysanky. 

Onyshchuk has two sections of Lemko pysanky in her book––these, labelled simply “Lemko,” and a set from Pryashiv (in eastern Slovakia).  I assume that the set on this pages was probably from the Polish and Ukrainian Lemko areas, or else simply not further identifiable by area of origin.

(The numbers associated with the pysanky are just the order in which the eggs were placed on the unnumbered plates of the book, with a new sequence for each region.)

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