The tradition to paint eggs by Easter originates in times of early Christianity. A symbol of immortality and Christ's revival, Easter colored egg, initially was exclusively scarlet color, but over time its began to paint in ten various shades. You can use purchased dyes and stickers, and you can apply eco-friendly ways which still your grandmother used.
It is required to you
- eggs;
- vinegar;
- vegetable oil;
- juice and vegetables and fruit decoctions
- spices;
- old nylon tights;
- leaves
- grass
- rice
Instruction
1. The most known natural color for eggs – an onions peel. In many families it begins to be postponed carefully long before Easter to collect quantity, necessary for coloring. Less thrifty clean kilograms of onions and then week or two the family eats onions soup and pies. It is known that the peel from ordinary onions, depending on concentration of broth, can give to a shell a gentle-yellow or henna-red shade. Violet onions will share the lilac shade with eggs.
2. But I am capable to paint a shell not only onions, and and all the known dyes received from spices, vegetable and fruit juices. So burgundy, red or pink color is given to a shell by beet and cherry juice, the turmeric and caraway seeds paints in yellow, spinach and cabbage, blue - bilberry, brown – tea shares a green shade.
3. To paint eggs by means of natural colors, add 1 glass (if it is juice or a peel) or 1 spoon (if it is spices) to 4 glasses of water and 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Vinegar is necessary to loosen a little an egg shell and to force it better to absorb dye. You boil mix on slow fire about 20 minutes, and then put in it eggs and you cook them until ready. Get the painted eggs a spoon and spread on a paper towel for drying. That egg became bright and glossy, wipe it with the rag moistened in vegetable oil.
4. Surprising beauty of effects can be reached if to turn before coloring of egg in the pieces which are cut off from women's nylon tights and to press this improvised grid to a shell leaves of trees and plants (it is possible room), a grass, rice or buckwheat. Leaving the white prints which aren't affected by paint on eggs, all this tinsel turns ordinary egg into the work of art.
5. Painted eggs earlier, using the fading threads or pieces of fabric, but this way differs from use of modern chemical dyes only in the fact that the last are framed taking into account that they will be used on foodstuff what you won't tell about paint which they painted fabrics and threads.