6 ways to color eggs in onion skins

I love the modern Easter egg stickers, but I also love the traditional red ones. For me, they are the symbol of Easter. I just couldn't paint them evenly. I had to call my grandmother, and she was indignant at my lack of intelligence for a long time. It turns out that you need to paint with onion skins without the skins! But, looking at my experiments from a different angle, I realized that I had found a way to get red eggs with a pattern without film.

Smooth coloring

This is how my grandmother painted. The result is an even, rich red color. The instructions are as follows:

• Take a large saucepan and fill half of it (or less) with onion peels. Take a pan that will definitely not absorb pigment. Aluminum can be washed in a month, used enamel can NOT be washed, stainless steel can be washed perfectly with soda.
• Fill half the pan with water and leave for a couple of hours. The husk will float, so you shouldn’t focus on it.
• Place on the fire and bring to a boil.
• Cook the onion skins over medium-low heat for 1-1.5 hours (the method is called “set it and forget it,” so I recommend turning on the timer so that the onion skins don’t start to fry).
• When the husks are cooked, strain them. Pour the water without the husks into the pan under the eggs through a sieve. Throw away the husks.
• Now there are two options: either boil the eggs in paint, or boil them in plain water, and then immerse them in paint for 1-3 minutes.

Coloring with stripes

When I dyed eggs incorrectly, I put them in with the shells. Where the scales stuck to the shell, light spots remained. I decided to use this effect to my advantage.

The easiest thing is to get stripes. You need to wrap the egg with harsh cotton or knitting thread, tape, electrical tape, thin tape or just hair bands. In this form, cook in onion skin (or other) paint.

How to get a marble effect

To do this, I need to enhance the stain effect that I got when I dyed the eggs my own way. How to achieve this:

• Wash the egg and place it on a gauze square.
• Cover with small and large onion scales.
• Wrap it in gauze, like a knot, and tie it to make a “cipollino”.
• Boil in plain water or adding 1/3 bottle of green tea. With an emerald solution, the color will be more heterogeneous and more similar to simbircite.

How to color eggs with parsley leaves / a sprig of dill

I experimented a little and got this acceptable method:

1. Wash the eggs in soapy water and rinse the green leaves with water. While wet, they will stick to each other well.
2. Place twigs and leaves to create a beautiful pattern.
3. Secure by taking everything into a gauze bundle.
4. Cook in onion peel paint for about 15 minutes.

How to get free-form spots and silhouettes

Silhouettes are great from paper - cut out the silhouettes you need, moisten and attach to the egg, secure with gauze and paint in onion solution.

Advice
When I made the silhouettes, I had neither gauze nor thin chintz. I made figures from old children's stickers with cars and dinosaurs. The main thing is not to cook, but just keep it in hot paint.

How to paint eggs in onion skins and get an openwork pattern

In the same way, you can stick on entire openwork patterns and plot images:

• Make a protrusion.
• Dampen it on a damp sponge.
• Glue onto the boiled egg.
• Secure with gauze.
• Let it sit in the paint for a few minutes.

Patterns for Easter eggs:

Instead of vytynanka, many housewives take openwork disposable napkins - it also turns out very beautifully.

Advice

How else can you decorate eggs?

• In addition to onion peels, other natural dyes are used:
• carrots and turmeric give a red color, suitable for white eggs;
• beets - purple-red or burgundy;
• purple/red cabbage and black currants will color the eggs blue;
• brilliant green (which is logical) – to green.

If you want to create, but you realize that you won’t be able to eat that many eggs, make holes on both ends of the egg, carefully blow out the contents through a straw and use it on Easter cakes and other Easter delicacies, and also on your morning omelet.

And decorate the shell like regular papier-mâché:

• acrylic paints;
• gouache;
• watercolor;
• decoupage;
• glue and beads, lace, etc.

Such beautiful eggs will not spoil, the beautiful decoration does not need to be disassembled (as with edible versions), they are often given as souvenirs for Easter, especially if they went to visit not on the holiday itself, but a couple of days later, when everyone has already eaten eggs and is afraid of new edibles revenues.

Dyeing eggs is interesting, fun, you can do it with the whole family, or you can do it alone. And if you exchange crafts, and not products, then you won’t have to throw rotten, once tasty and not very cheap supplies into a landfill.