Here is the video ... Well I decided to try it, today.., and here is the results. only thing , I worried cuz I did not have those tiny rubberbands to keep the silk tie material securely around the egg, so I used twist ties and some cotton yarn that I had, so the dye from the silk ties did turn the white cotton cloths pink ...but to me the eggs still turned out pretty good.. well can;t seem to upload my pics here so will have to try with the Upload a file instead,,the pics may be smaller. will see...
thank you Chrissy , I had fun with it, now to find a pattern to crochet a little basket that only holds one egg.. want to give some away to some lady friends at church tomorrow.
The eggs displayed are beautiful! My Grandma each year hand-colored eggs in a traditional way brought from Europe, learned from her mother. Each egg took 4 to 8 hours to complete. She was Czechoslovak, and yet I learned on-line the tradition was begun by the Ukrainians. Nowhere near Czechoslovakia, so, who knows? Here's what they looked like:
@Louise Williams - well done gal ! Didn't realise you were such a patient soul Beautiful they are @Frank Sanoica - again, truly fabulous !
Frank that is a lot of work, I saw it on tv once how they do it... well trained hands and eyes and utensils to be so masterful like that... .. they are beyond beautiful..!! and I doubt its a lost art as I have seen them many times.. can be very expensive too, but well worth the price , hand done like that.. thanks for posting.. Patsy , I really had fun doing it and its the surprise at the end when they came out so pretty. I did eat one today..
I have always been fascinated with the beauty displayed in various Egg Carvings (Ostrich, Emu, Rhea, Goose, etc.) from actual Relief Carving of beautiful images on the Eggs to the Decoupage Eggs, Etched Eggs and of course Faberge Eggs. As I mentioned previously, I do quite a bit of Woodworking, but my Shop is not heated. So the cold temps prevents me from doing much of any Woodworking in my Shop during the cold winter months. I have a heated Basement but there is too much dust from the Woodworking to do that in the Basement. So I decided to try a new Hobby that I could do in the Basement, I got started into Goose Egg Carving. I do like it and enjoy working with the eggs. Some of them can be challenging at times. almost complete and it breaks, best to just laugh at it and go again. I feel that I am not doing too bad considering that I just started at the beginning of this past winter. No doubt, I still have a lot to learn with my new found hobby. The weather here is about to look promising and maybe I can get back into my Woodworking. I guess I will pick back up on this Egg Carving when Old Man Winter returns. Oh, yes, the Butterflies are Goose Egg Shell also. I needed to do something with the pieces of egg shells from the broken ones. My Wife and Daughters love them, so I have been practicing and providing them with Carved Goose Eggs.
My Maternal Grandma worked eggs, not carvings, but rather hand-painting, a Slavic skill handed down from mothers to daughters for hundreds of years in Europe. She taught one of my nieces to do it, but my sister was not interested. They were extremely intricate, some required an entire day's work to do one. She worked with a tiny burner melting wax, which was distributed over the egg, then meticulously scraped away to allow each color to be applied separately, then dipped again after one was applied to protect it. Frank
I don't know how you managed to carve the eggs Roger - amazing @Frank Sanoica, the painted eggs are fab too !
My lack of patience would never allow me to even attempt to do something like that. They are beautiful and I admire the talent it must take to create such a wondrous piece of art.