Eggs decorated with knotted thread, wax or straw (Rozalia, Slovakia)

Rozalia presents us with a whole range of traditional techniques, with great attention to detail and great attention to detail: thread knotting, straw scraping and gluing.
She is the only one on our site to offer a technique by tying a metal wire: This technique is called "drotárstvo" in Slovakia and "drátkování" in Czech.


On her eggs, Rozalia often mixes techniques, as you can see in the examples below.

Rozalia sent us new eggs, you can discover them on our exhibition gallery .

To learn more about this wire knotting technique, here is a video made by UNESCO on this traditional heritage:


And to understand how this can be done around an egg, here is a tutorial video made by another Slovak artist:

Find all her shells here