Easter in Romania

I. Introduction Easter, annual festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the principal feast of the Christian year. It is celebrated on a Sunday on varying dates between March 22 and April 25 and is therefore called a movable feast. The dates of several other ecclesiastical festivals, extending over a period between Septuagesima Sunday (the ninth Sunday before Easter) and the first Sunday of Advent, are fixed in relation to the date of Easter. Connected with …

…egg (traditional) - vegetal colors - bee wax - Tools - goose feather - "Chisita" (special tool, made of a thin metal pipe, with very small diameter; a pig hair is pulled through it) is used for "writing" the motive. - "Brush" (a tool that is used for covering the larger spaces - thick lines, points etc.) - (Vegetal) Colours - obtain from sweat apple peal, sweet apple leaves and flowers, hip rose peal etc.