Egg symbolizes the beginning of life. Therefore not accidentally at many people they are important attribute of religious practices. So at Orthodox Christians of the whole world it is accepted to paint eggs by Easter week, and then to give. For their coloring it is possible to use natural and food colors. The choice depends on your desires, addictions, existence of free time and imagination.
It is required to you
- onions peel;
- birch leaves;
- rice;
- gauze;
- cotton fabric;
- beet;
- berries;
- greens leaves;
- kapron rags;
- sunflower oil.
Instruction
1. Paint eggs with an onions peel - an old traditional way. Collect it in advance. For receiving a saturated shade it is necessary to take a peel more and to cook about half an hour in water. And then already start coloring of eggs. For this purpose take them in the boiling broth of 10 minutes.
2. Make broth of dry birch leaves. For this purpose fill in them with water and boil 30 minutes, let's infuse. Put eggs in warm broth and boil 10 minutes. As a result they will get a golden, yellow shade.
3. Paint egg in a speck. For this purpose wet it and roll in in rice, densely inwrap in a gauze, tie the ends, lower in the painting broth and you cook 10 minutes.
4. For obtaining marble effect, wrap up egg in an onions peel, from above roll up white cotton fabric and weld.
5. Wring out beet or a cranberry. Put boiled eggs in the received juice. They will gain pink color.
6. Boil water, put in it violets and let's infuse night. By means of this infusion it is possible to paint eggs in violet color. And if to add a little more lemon juice - lavender.
7. For receiving a vegetable pattern apply a leaf of any greens to white egg, from above tie with a rag from a stocking. Fix it by an elastic band and put in the painting solution.
8. It is possible to paint eggs a fresh or frozen berries (bilberry, blackberry, strawberry, currant, cherry, etc.). Make of them puree, using a masher. Roll in in it boiled eggs. Stir up, having removed the used pulp, and dry up.
9. After coloring, oil the dried-up eggs sunflower. It will make color nasyshchenny and will add gloss.