Regional Easter egg – Opole – duck – black

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 colour 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. It mediated between the human world and gods and spirits. In the cultural aspect of decorating Easter eggs, it is worth emphasizing that they feature stylized plant motifs: twigs, trees, flowers, animals.

They all evoke meanings – trees of life, they also indicate the role of eggs in symbolic restoration of life after the winter phase of sleep. Kroszonka Opole handmade on a black background of a duck egg. Complicated, full of details patterns are created by folk artists from Opole Silesia. Using a shoemaker’s knife, they scrape vegetable and geometric motifs on dyed eggshells, and their shape and method of creation continue the long-standing tradition, according to which even the colour of the shell has symbolism. 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 an entirely unique pattern.

The height of the shell ~ 7 cm

Material: – Easter egg: duck eggshell – box: decorative cardboard printed in the colors of Bombkarnia

Each of the elements was produced in Poland.