Why do we paint eggs at Easter? 8 amazing egg compositions that will give you the answer

Easter egg painting has serious traditions in this country. On the other hand, it is less well known that it is a popular custom in almost the entire Carpathian basin, and even beyond, in the countries to the east of us..

The tradition of egg painting can be traced back to the distant past. Although 60,000-year-old (!) ostrich eggs decorated with carved designs were found in South Africa, it is more interesting from the point of view of the European culture that the Persians also decorated eggs, this mainly took place around the spring equinox - this was the time of the Persian New Year (norouz), at this time family members decorated eggs together. Presumably, the Christian tradition associated with Easter, which survived mainly in the eastern part of Europe, may also originate from here. Christianity probably took over Easter, the fasting before it, and egg painting together from the Persians, and the egg, as an ancient symbol of life, was connected to the celebration of the Resurrection. The color of Easter eggs is typically red because it symbolizes the blood of Christ.

 

As the centuries and millennia passed, it was possible to decorate the eggs in more and more spectacular and creative ways - just think of the Fabergé eggs made for the Russian Tsarist family, studded with precious stones, although they are not made of real eggs, but the principle is roughly the same.

 

Check out our selection below.

 

1. A good example of the Eastern European tradition of egg painting is the work of Dinara Mirtalipova, an artist originally from Uzbekistan but now living in Ohio.:

 

 

2. You can do this indigo blue marble pattern with nail polish, the sight is amazing:

 

 

3. Floral patterns are always popular when it comes to egg painting:

 

 

4. Beautiful eggs from Romania decorated with folk motifs:

 

 

5. Calligraphic eggs are also becoming more and more cool, it is difficult to make a more beautiful decoration with minimalist technique (which of course requires very serious skills):

 

 

6. The triumph of ornaments and geometric shapes is the egg pattern below:

 

 

7. You can also do wonders with pastel colors if they are in the right hands:

 

8. And realistic egg painting leads to such beautiful results:

 

 

9. If we are already painting on a spherical base, why not give the eggs a face? With these cool emoji eggs, you can also influence the mood of the guests at the moment:

 

 

10. But the result is perhaps even more spectacular if popular movie characters and comic book heroes are placed on the egg.

 

 

+1. We couldn't miss these eggs with folk motifs. 

 

 

And if you want to use some of the eggs in a more traditional way - for example, to make egg salad or egg cream - we can offer great tools for that too! For example an egg slicer, or this practical egg topper.