Easter : Art and Design by Krystine Kercher

For Easter, I want to share some special fabric designs featuring natural and dyed eggs as well as other designs. It may take me a little while to get them all posted. I have quite a few! If there’s something that you’d particularly like, please contact me.

Easter Eggs and Cherry Blossoms

Lilac

These fabric designs are more subdued and delicate, more traditional.

Brush Brown

Chambray Blue

Crushed Coral

Jade Green

Marlin Blue

Quiet Shade (Grey)

Rooibos Tea

Teal Glaze

Pysanky Easter Eggs

Fabric Designs

Ukrainian women dye Easter eggs in special folk art designs called Pysanky. Several generations ago, one side of my family immigrated from Ukraine to Canada, and then down in the U.S. They were Mennonites, originally from the Low Countries (probably from Belgium), but I think they would have liked this artwork.

Navy Blue

Charcoal

Kohlrabi Green

Lilac

Orange

Pink

White

Yellow

Pysanky Triangles

Fabric Designs

Each of these designs has a special meaning. The stylized floral design is a dogwood, symbol of Christ’s death and resurrection. The triangles are decorated with straight lines for furrows, wavy lines for water, dots for seeds, and–I forget what the nesting triangles represent. The triangles also create pinwheel patterns.