The world of 'pisanki' - patterned Easter eggs
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
06.04.2012 14:40
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The world of 'pisanki' - patterned Easter eggs
We learn how in the Carpathian Mountains, highlanders once believed that the fate of the world depended on patterned Easter Eggs....
With Easter upon us, our Krakow correspondent Nick Hodge has been delving into the colourful world of the “pisanka” - the patterned Easter egg...
Typical easter eggs (pisanki) from the Huculszczyzna region in Western Ukraine. Image courtesy of the Ethnographic Museum in Zielona Gora (Ochla)
Music in the report by Piotr Kłapyta, co-organiser of the International Hutsul Festival