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<\/a>Kraszanki – uniformly colored eggs<\/span><\/h4>\nThe simplest technique of painting eggs (eggs in Polish are called jaja<\/strong> or jajka<\/strong>) which I remember from my childhood was painting the eggs in natural dyes. For instance eggs cooked in onion skins (sk\u00f3rki\u00a0cebuli<\/strong>) give a pretty medium brown color or in red beets (czerwone buraki<\/strong>) give a deep red. Such eggs are still healthy to eat even if the onions penetrated through the eggs changing its coloration inside. The less common natural dyes used for coloring eggs were – leaves of birch or alder (li\u015bcie\u00a0brzozy\u00a0lub\u00a0olcha<\/strong>) which give a beautiful yellow color, carrot (marchewka<\/strong>) and pumpkin (dynia<\/strong>) for orange, blackthorn (tarnina<\/strong>) for blue or different grasses and nettle (r\u00f3\u017cne\u00a0trawy\u00a0i pokrzywy<\/strong>) for green. Mixing different main colors gives practically all possible color shades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The one-colored eggs can be further modified – a delicate pattern can be scratched by use of knife, pin or another sharp tool on uniformly painted kraszanki. If these painted or unpainted but scratched eggs were then painted in dyes then the color would naturally adher to the rough scratched surface. In Podlasie (eastern Poland) traditionally the pieces of wool (we\u0142na<\/strong>) or bulrush (sitowie<\/strong>) were sticked to the eggs forming variety of usually round motives. Such eggs are called oklejanki. Colorful, earlier prepared pieces of paper were adhered to the eggs – called naklejanki.<\/p>\n The majority of the Polish painted eggs which you can buy in souvenir stores in Poland are made of wood. But some are still made of hollow eggs called wydmuszki – which are just blown eggs or egg shells. These eggs need to be handled with an extra care, since it is very easy to break it.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/a>Skrobanki – one-colored<\/span><\/span> eggs with scratched patterns by use of sharp tool or pin<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nFrankly, I do not like a word skrobanka because it also means abortion procedure, in Polish. All painted eggs (kraszanki, skrobanki, wydmuszki, oklejanki etc) are known under a general term PISANKI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Oklejanki i naklejanki<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/a> The name come from the word wydmuchac – blow off – since the inside of the egg was blown away through the hole at the top of the bottom of the egg.<\/p>\n