Exquisitely hand painted or dyed with traditional designs and, more recently, hand decorated with colored wax with very intricate small designs, including plants and animals, by a growing number of talented artisans from Bucovina, a very beautiful region in Northeast Romania. Formerly a Romanian region, half of it became part of Ukraine after WWI. The Easter Egss with very intricate geometric designs (as opposed to the floral Polish ones) were promoted in the U.S. mainly by Ukrainian-Americans as Pysanki, as being just "Ukrainian" when in fact they belong mostly to the region of Bucovina and not to the whole country of Ukraine; one can say that now they belong to two cultures, though it is the Romanian side of Bucovina that has been producing much more and of better quality and exporting large quantities for the markets not just in West Europe and the U.S. but also in Asia, mainly in Japan.
    The painted ones whose designs leave free about 10% white background are either blue, or green and yellow, or the more traditional red. The waxed ones that have about 20% white background are decorated either  with just beige and brown designs, including some fascinating ones with BIRDS and ANIMALS, or using more colors such as red, yellow, green besides beige and brown.
    We also have ostrich large eggs decorated with village folk life scenery where a central place would be the church surrounded by people at fieldwork and children school activities
    About 20 more collectors should rush for the eggs depicting religious figures of Jesus and St.Mary or birds and animals.

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    A duck egg retails for $15 and a goose one for $30, whether painted or waxed. Some duck eggs painted on red background with simpler designs are $12 each. Lower prices for larger orders.

hand-painted regular and goose eggs $15-$30

large ostrich eggs $200-250

To offer help (volunteer work or donations), for details on the Orthodox churches services for Easter, to register for a Romanian Easter Dinner, and for info about our summer programs and participation in Festivals, please contact Rodica Perciali at (215) 732 - 6780, or romuseum@erols.com. Happy Easter!