Scraping eggs
Scratching eggs (sometimes called egg carving ) is a Slavic Easter custom in which Easter eggs are decorated using a scratching or scratching technique . Egg-scratching is known among Croatians in central Croatia , Poland , Slovaks in the Spiš , Czechs in Bohemia and Sorbs in Lusatia .
In Burgenland , for example in Stinatz , where it has been practiced by Burgenland Croatians and their descendants since the Second World War , it is threatened with extinction.
It has also been widespread in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland since the mid-19th century .
technology
The scratching or scoring technique is one of the most elaborate and filigree decoration techniques. In egg with a particularly resistant and thick shell that has been previously dyed with fabric or batik colors or by staining, appropriate ornaments are scratched into the shell with sharp, ground objects such as nails, knives (Solothurn), files or the like. By varying the depth of the cut, corresponding color nuances up to the white of the eggshell can be created.
See also
Web links
- Scratch technology, in: sorbische-ostereier.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Easter tradition in Burgenland, Austria: Scratching Easter eggs in Stinatz ( Memento from May 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), April 4, 2012
- ↑ Extraordinary voyages of discovery in Burgenland. The press, May 3, 2012
- ↑ Felicitas Oehler: Big in small things: Easter eggs, silhouettes and naive painting in Switzerland today, Orell Füssli, 1997, ISBN 395210843X Online
- ↑ Heimatwerk, Volumes 30–32, 1965 p. 221 [1]
- ↑ Traditional Easter customs, something that has been forgotten is scraping eggs, a handicraft that Rosa Heim in the Solothurner Gäu masterfully mastered. ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), “Carousel” from April 7, 1977 on srf.ch
- ↑ Heimatwerk, volumes 30–32, 1965, p. 214 online