Easter eggs have become over time one of the universal symbols of Holy Week. Each area of ??Christian beliefs has its customs and the prominence that eggs take on is very different depending on the region where we are. While in many countries they are represented as chocolate figures, in others they make true works of art.
In Bosnia there are many artisans who decorate chicken eggs. In the video that accompanies this article, we see how Miroslava Ivicevic delicately paints the shells with an ancestral technique that has passed through several generations of women. She only needs some kind of fountain pen and honey beeswax.
But the art of decorating does not only fall on them. The video also shows how the blacksmith Stjepan Biletic puts decorative elements on the eggs he works on. The most successful piece is the horseshoe, which he shapes with great care with his metalworking tools. Many customers ask for horseshoe eggs, as a symbol of luck.
