Poppy & Diamond Band Pysanka — a real Ukrainian goose egg, hand-painted in the traditional wax-batik technique. Large red poppy blossoms with green leaves crown the top of the egg, while a wide diamond-grid lattice band in red, gold, and white wraps around the body, framed by dotted geometric border lines.

Diamond and lattice patterns are one of the most traditional elements of Ukrainian pysanka art, often associated with order and protection, while the poppy is a long-standing folk symbol of remembrance and family memory.

• Real goose egg (emptied and prepared), not wooden or wax
• Size: approx. 3.5 in (≈9 cm) length and height
• Hand-painted, traditional wax-batik (pysanka) method
• Handmade in Western Ukraine
• Varnished finish
• Brand new, never used

As each egg is painted entirely by hand, the exact placement of every line and petal may vary slightly from the photos — this is part of what makes every pysanka one of a kind.

About Pysanka Tradition

Ancient people believed that an egg was a small copy of the world: a life-giving sun inside, preserved by a few shells from any damage and negative powers. This is how Ukrainian hand painted eggs appeared. They are called pysanka eggs, from the word “pysaty” that means “to write, to paint” from Ukrainian. Later the decorated real eggs were associated with Holy Trinity. Egg yolk, white and shell is the impersonation of three hypostasis of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The ethnic tradition to paint eggs for honouring nature powers were turned to religious tradition of painting eggs as symbols of Eastern. Pysanka egg souvenirs are dried shells of goose eggs with painted ornaments made of natural inks by wax-resist method. At first an ornament is pained with wax by a tiny metal pen, and than the egg is put into cold ink, starting from the lightest one. Then the wax is wiped off, and the procedure starts all over again until all ornaments of all colours are finished. While earlier such pysanky eggs were painted by family mates and given from one home to another, now this is an artistic handicraft. Now everyone can buy such a unique present. Here you will find a big gallery of pysanky eggs for sale.