Looking for an idea? This book is a must.
Vira MANKO lives in Lviv (Lwow). She has been devoting herself to making pysanky since 1968, popularizing making authentic folk pysanky.
The first half of the hardcover book goes into great depth answering such questions as; What Does the Pysanka Tell Us?, Folk Customs and Traditions,The Symbolism of the Ukrainian Pysanka, Pysanka stories and legends, How to writa a pysanka.
The second half of this book is in full color with 36-40 eggs pictured on each page with reference to the region it comes from.
These regions include: Kholm, Hrubewshiv, Pidliashshia, Nadsiannia, Transcarpathia, Lemkiv, Presov, Volyn', Pivne Province, Zhytomyr Province, Lviv Province, Ivano-Frankivs'k Province,Chernivtsi Province, Ternopil Province, Khmelnytskyi Province, Vinnytsia Province, Kyiv Province, Zhytomyr Province, Chrkasy Province, Poltava Provance, Chernihiv Province, Sumy Province, Kurs'k, Kharkiv Province and South of Ukraine