Painted Eggs and Painting Tools

Title

Painted Eggs and Painting Tools

Description

Painted eggs used in Czech folk tradition. Two people would crack eggs together to see which would break and which would not. Now the eggs are used mostly for decoration. Dying was done using beeswax and dyes.

Creator

Zak Family

Source

Robin Zak; Wilber Czech History Harvest, 2016

Date

2015 circa

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Format

object

Type

image

Files

zak_robin_0004.JPG
zak_robin_0004c.JPG

Collection

Citation

Zak Family, “Painted Eggs and Painting Tools,” History Harvest, accessed May 5, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/1289.

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