Decorative Easter eggs, pysanky, from the Ukrainian word pysaty , date back to ancient times, according to Jeanne Rudy, a Nanaimo resident of Ukrainian ancestry.
Rudy said she uses a “wax-resist process” to make the eggs and is “saving the colour with the wax.” She drains the yolk out of a hole with a device similar to a wine siphon, hooked up to her laundry sink.
“You start with the raw egg.
“I have to go through a lot of dozens to get decent ones that are smooth, nicely shaped, you don’t see the membrane coming through and you look for cracks and things,” she said.