(13 Apr 2025)
UK EASTER EGG DECORATING
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London, UK – 6 April 2025
1. Various of foraged plants and flowers being placed on eggs before dying at workshop
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Munteanu, Founder of Casa De Folklore:
"Easter is a huge celebration just as big as Christmas, we go wild for it. I have the most beautiful memories growing up. I can still smell the cakes that my grandma bakes every time I think about Easter and I can hear the noises in the village with the children running around. It’s one of my favourite traditions, it’s very magical. And I try and keep it close to me every year by practising this ritual of egg dyeing."
3. Various of eggs being cleaned with vinegar to remove stamp
4. Close of foliage being added to egg
5. Wide of workshop
6. Close of egg with foliage being wrapped with tights
7. Various of onion skins being added to pot
8. Mid of red cabbage in pot
9. Various of participants placing eggs into pots
10. Close of pot with turmeric and eggs
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Munteanu, Founder of Casa De Folklore:
"This tradition has been around for many years. It’s been practising in cultures all over the world. It started before Christ times, eggs represent fertility and new beginnings. Nowadays, they’re very much a Christian symbol, and people use them around their homes to decorate their homes all year round with beautiful detailed patterns and motifs."
12. Close of egg with wax on it
13. Various of workshop, eggs being decorated with wax
14. Various of eggs being dyed
15. Set-up shot of participant, Sandra Janssens
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sandra Janssens, participant:
"I saw it advertised and I really love doing arty things, because I’ve never done egg dying before. And I think when you do arty things out of your comfort zone you think of nothing else, and it’s very enriching, it’s very satisfying."
17. Eggs being dyed and decorated with wax
18. Egg being dyed with green dye
19. Mid of egg being dyed with pink dye
20. Egg being decorated with wax
21. Egg being dipped in dye
22. Wax being melted off egg
23. Set-up shot of Bianca Kitching, studio organiser and founder of Bable London
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Bianca Kitching, participant and studio organiser, Bable London:
"I think we can definitely do this again at home now we know. The one with the dying with the tights and the flowers I’ll definitely recreate that home."
25. Various of Munteanu removing eggs from pot
26. Wax being burnt off egg
27. Various of eggs decorated
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Decorating eggs is a tradition that has been around for hundreds of years, especially around Easter time.
In London, craft lovers are coming together to try their hand at producing exquisitely decorated eggs using wax and natural dyes.
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Traditional techniques passed down through generations.
Egg decorating is a Romanian tradition that has been around for hundreds of years.
Romanians traditionally dye eggs either using vegetable, or more commonly synthetic dye, during the week leading up to Easter.
Here at Casa De Folklore, the participants learn to make natural dyes before applying them to the eggs.
The eggs are emptied and cleaned before the intricate work on the shell begins.
Foraged flowers and leaves imprint the outlines of nature onto the white eggs.
"Easter is a huge celebration just as big as Christmas, we go wild for it," explains textile designer and founder of Casa De Folklore, Alice Munteanu.
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