Eggs are in the news this week – chocolate ones that is – but for Easter I love the real, hard boiled ones we used to decorate at this time of year. Back in the day most people used a resist method: drawing a design with wax and then dying with food colour (sometimes called the batik method).
Our designs were very simple but the experts can get some amazing results.
The following eggs are from Lithuania and are created using bees wax and a dye made from onion skins.
There are endless variations on the decorated egg – I have discovered the blackboard egg,
which I presume you can’t eat as blackboard paint must be toxic,
the tattooed egg – easy to achieve with sheets of temporary tattoos – the insect design is rather stylish I think,
but take a look at this – the embroidered egg.
They are real eggs, really embroidered with needle and thread – unbelievable.
And they can be incredibly intricate.
Stick on a moustache.
Write a message.
Be inspired by pantone colour charts.
The possibilities are endless – but I like this little chap.
