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Painted eggs of Bucovina

in winter, with the mountain them women bucoviniennes become plastic decorators, in calms of their house they devote with the very delicate painting of eggs.
Mrs Oresia receives us at it in traditional costume of Bucovine.
We will show you various stages to arrive at little marvels. If the colours and the topics often return each egg is single.
It is a work meticulous, which requires much patience, an artistic direction, and of imagination developed. The eggs used for decoration are generally eggs of hens but also of canes of geese or ostriches.

Technique of realization of the eggs "Impistrite":
The technique impistririi or (inchistririi) which is most complex and more difficult to realize.

To take a believed egg and to empty it using a syringe in insufflating air has fine to make leave contained.
 

To let dry it is for that one does not carry out the decoration of only one egg but of several in even time with different stages. When that is dry the opening will be to stop share a small stopper of wax
 

The basic tool is "chisita". It is composed of a stick or with fixed one small piece of tinplate or copper or very fine brass which has a very fine opening or passes beeswax has constant temperature.

With the "chisita" that have it regularly hardening in wax one draws reasons on the shell of egg.


Then the egg is soaked in a bath dye, this first bath is rather of clear colour.

The beeswax thus tightens of mask these places will be protected by this one during the successive baths.

Between each baths the egg must dry, then dissolved it this one gently with the top of a flame by essuyant it in a rag, attention all is a question of proportioning because the egg can burst has any moment.

Then the operation is renewed with the "chisita" other reasons and hot beeswax and so on, the egg then appears in all its splendour.
 

With regard to the reasons in relief, they are carried out with wax coloured, always with the "chisita" but without colouring bath.

Many of these eggs are carried out for the orthodox festival Easter and are exposed in the churches, monastery and each house an are egg basket decorated, others are sold or exposed to the museum of the craft industry to Radauti (Bucovine).

This craft industry is a tradition which remains of mother as a girl since generations it prepares eggs for Easter.

Easter according to the Orthodox rite
(Date of April 30 at May 2)

At Easter after the mass of resurrection, the priest blessed the basket. In each house have and in the basket a little all the dishes which will be used for table.

The orthodox ones do not eat a morning it are found on their premises in family, for the meal of "soft" (eggs, meat and of dairy produces) those was interdict during the Lent of Easter.

The basket must be very beautiful, and the women exceed themselves in ornament in its decoration so that it is splendid, there exists a true competition.

The decorated eggs occupy the first place on the list of the dishes been useful with the occasion of the lunch of the Easter Day.
                                        

Text & Photographs of: Georgeta Olaru Translation: Pop Cristina

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