Regional Easter egg – Opoczyńska goose – brown (Kopia)

Easter in Poland is a church holiday celebrating the Paschal mystery. For others, it is also a springtime relaxation. The holiday is full of traditions and folk customs, which, depending on the region, have their color and patterned counterparts. We decorate houses using symbols, we cultivate old customs. The most popular ones are: making palm trees, painting Easter eggs, preparing an Easter basket, or pouring water in Śmigus Dyngusa.

Painting Easter eggs comes from old Slavic beliefs, where the egg was a symbol of vitality and new life. The yellow color was given by the girl to the boy she did not want. It was a sign to leave her alone. The yellow color of Easter eggs is obtained by staining in a decoction of onion husks, but strongly diluted.

A yellow Easter egg from Opoczno presenting one of the older forms of goose egg ornamentation, the batik technique. Easter egg decorated with a traditional, folk technique, which consists in painting patterns with beeswax, and then, after dyeing the egg, wiping the wax with a cloth, thanks to which fancy, hand-painted patterns remain on the colored surface. The invaluable advantage of these Easter eggs is the fact that thanks to the technique of production, which cultivates a long, folk tradition, each egg is decorated with a completely unique pattern.

Easter egg made of goose egg shell.

The height of the shell ~ 9 cm

Material:
– Easter egg: goose egg shell
– box: decorative cardboard printed in the colors of Bombkarnia

Each of the elements was produced in Poland.