Editing Easter egg (section)

=== Colouring ===
[[File:Ostereier - Easter eggs.jpg|thumb|Easter eggs before and after colouring]]
[[File:Urządzenie podgrzewające kolorowy wosk do malowania pisanek - detal.jpg|thumb|Heated wax paint used to decorate traditional Easter Eggs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia]]
The dyeing of Easter eggs in different colours is commonplace, with colour being achieved through boiling the egg in natural substances (such as, [[onion]] peel (brown colour), [[oak]] or [[alder]] bark or [[walnut]] nutshell (black), [[beet]] juice (pink) etc.), or using [[artificial colouring]]s.

A greater variety of colour was often provided by tying on the onion skin with different coloured woollen [[yarn]]. In the North of England these are called pace-eggs or paste-eggs, from a dialectal form of Middle English ''pasche''. [[Edward I of England|King Edward I]]'s household accounts in 1290 list an item of 'one shilling and sixpence for the decoration and distribution of 450 Pace-eggs!',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pace Egging|url=https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pace-Egging/|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Historic UK|language=en-GB |first1=Ellen |last1=Castelow |date=23 May 2015 |archive-date=2021-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123012457/https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pace-Egging/|url-status=live}}</ref> which were to be coloured or gilded and given to members of the royal household.<ref name=":2"/> Traditionally in England, eggs were wrapped in [[onion]] skins and boiled to make their shells look like mottled gold, or wrapped in flowers and leaves first in order to leave a pattern, which parallels a custom practised in traditional [[Scandinavia]]n culture.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hall|first=Stephanie|date=2017-04-06|title=The Ancient Art of Decorating Eggs {{!}} Folklife Today|url=https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/04/decorating-eggs/#:~:text=In%20some%20regions%20solid-color,a%20symbol%20of%20Christ's%20blood.|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Library of Congress Blogs |archive-date=2021-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321154425/https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/04/decorating-eggs/#:~:text=In%20some%20regions%20solid-color,a%20symbol%20of%20Christ's%20blood.|url-status=live}}</ref> Eggs could also be drawn on with a wax candle before staining, often with a person's name and date on the egg.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=The history behind the Easter pace eggs at York's Castle Museum |first1=Stephen |last1=Lewis |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18371517.history-behind-easter-pace-eggs-yorks-castle-museum/|access-date=2021-02-16|website=York Press|date=11 April 2020 |language=en|archive-date=2021-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404095238/https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18371517.history-behind-easter-pace-eggs-yorks-castle-museum/|url-status=live}}</ref> Pace Eggs were generally eaten for breakfast on [[Easter|Easter Sunday]] breakfast. Alternatively, they could be kept as decorations, used in egg-jarping ([[egg tapping]]) games, or given to [[Pace Egg play|Pace Eggers]]. In more recent centuries in England, eggs have been stained with coffee grains<ref name=":2" /> or simply boiled and painted in their shells.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Pace Egging: A Lancashire Tradition|url=https://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/history/pace-egging.shtml|access-date=2021-02-16|website=TimeTravel-Britain.com |first1=John |last1=Ravenscroft  |archive-date=2021-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211060954/https://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/history/pace-egging.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, Easter eggs are dyed red to represent the [[blood of Christ]], with further symbolism being found in the hard shell of the egg symbolizing the sealed [[Holy Sepulchre|Tomb of Christ]]—the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead. The tradition of red easter eggs was used by the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tripsavvy.com/red-in-russian-culture-1502319|title=In Russia the Color Red Represents More Than You Know|website=TripSavvy |first1=Kerry |last1=Kubilius |date=June 3, 2019 |access-date=2019-03-19|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329074523/https://www.tripsavvy.com/red-in-russian-culture-1502319|url-status=live}}</ref> The tradition to dyeing the easter eggs in an Onion tone exists in the cultures of [[Armenia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Ukraine]], [[Belarus]], [[Russia]], [[Czech Republic|Czechia]], [[Romania]], [[Serbia]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]], and [[Israel]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-dye-easter-eggs-with-onion-skins-holiday-projects-from-the-kitchn-217489|title=How To Dye Easter Eggs with Onion Skins|website=Kitchn|language=en |first1=Coco |last1=Morante |date=May 30, 2019 |access-date=2019-03-19|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329075912/https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-dye-easter-eggs-with-onion-skins-holiday-projects-from-the-kitchn-217489|url-status=live}}</ref> The colour is made by boiling onion peel in water.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rbth.com/russian-kitchen/327928-how-to-paint-easter-eggs|title=How to paint Easter eggs with onion, coffee and beets (PHOTOS)|last=Sorokina|first=Anna|date=2018-03-29|website=Russia Beyond |language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-19|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329074427/https://www.rbth.com/russian-kitchen/327928-how-to-paint-easter-eggs|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eastbook.eu/en/2015/03/28/the-easter-tradititons-in-belarus/|title=The Easter Traditions in Belarus|last1= Forman |first1=Daria |date=2015-03-28|website=Eastbook.eu|language=en-US |access-date=2019-03-19 |archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329074423/https://www.eastbook.eu/en/2015/03/28/the-easter-tradititons-in-belarus/|url-status=usurped}}</ref>