Handle with Care
These delicate and fragile real Easter eggs have been painted completely by hand in Turkey in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The eggshells all have a solid background applied to them, over which a stylised pattern of flowers in a William Morris style has been painted. The decorated eggs are then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface. These eggs have a small puncture at both the top and the bottom of them, indicating that they were “blown”, a tradition where one blows the white and yolk of the egg through the hole in the bottom by way of exhaling into the hole at the top. A time consuming method, egg blowing must be done gently so as not to break the fragile eggshell by applying too much pressure. It can take well over an hour to blow a single egg. The eggs are all painted in Turkey by one family, and then shipped to Australia.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 12th of April is “painted/painting eggs”, and I couldn’t think of a better choice to offer up for this week. I have packed them in a nice soft and protective nest of straw to keep them safe and show how fragile these hand painted beauties are. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Handle with Care
These delicate and fragile real Easter eggs have been painted completely by hand in Turkey in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The eggshells all have a solid background applied to them, over which a stylised pattern of flowers in a William Morris style has been painted. The decorated eggs are then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface. These eggs have a small puncture at both the top and the bottom of them, indicating that they were “blown”, a tradition where one blows the white and yolk of the egg through the hole in the bottom by way of exhaling into the hole at the top. A time consuming method, egg blowing must be done gently so as not to break the fragile eggshell by applying too much pressure. It can take well over an hour to blow a single egg. The eggs are all painted in Turkey by one family, and then shipped to Australia.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 12th of April is “painted/painting eggs”, and I couldn’t think of a better choice to offer up for this week. I have packed them in a nice soft and protective nest of straw to keep them safe and show how fragile these hand painted beauties are. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!