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Plate IEastern Europe & Balkans · Ukraine Pysanka, drawn by Wishlore

Pl. IPysanka. A decorated egg with a band of zigzags and a star. Drawing: Wishlore.

No. 10 · For a happy home · Eastern Europe & Balkans

The pysanka

A Ukrainian egg decorated with wax and dye, kept at home and given at births, baptisms and weddings.

Earliest record: Ukrainian decorated egg, UNESCO 2024
Source: UNESCO, decision 19.COM 7.B.14 (pysanka)
Region: Eastern Europe & Balkans · Ukraine
Wish: For a happy home
Layers: Record Folk Modern

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The story · three layers

The story, in three layers.

Record, Folk and Modern are kept apart, and each one carries its source.

Record

Ukraine

Inscribed by UNESCO, 2024

UNESCO’s 2024 decision records pysanky taken to church at Easter and then kept at home; families also give them to mark births, baptisms and weddings.

Folk

Ukraine

Kept in the house

People keep the eggs in the house through the year, believing they keep the household safe.

III

Modern

Wishlore, today

Made by Ukrainian makers

Whenever we show a pysanka, we name the Ukrainian maker.

Pysanka

Ukrainian decorated egg, UNESCO 2024

Story and sources on the reverse

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Watch the story

The story, in a minute.

It opens with the pencil construction, then follows the record, how people used it, and the piece we make today. Every fact in it comes from the sources on this page.

Length: 0:55
Narration: English, with subtitles on screen
Images: Pencil construction and the atlas drawing on this page, animated; no AI images; jewellery shown as a line drawing
Sources: Listed at the end of the film

Story film · 0:55 · Drawn from the atlas plate · no AI images

In one breath

An egg kept at home through the year. Who would you keep it for?

The pysanka

The story, in three layers.

Inscribed by UNESCO, 2024

Kept in the house

Made by Ukrainian makers

How would you like to keep it?

The story, in a minute.

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