This image is from a booklet produced by the American Folklife Center in 1982, long out of print but available at their website as a PDF. It gives a brief description of European egg decorating traditions and explains the traditional wax-and-dye techniques for producing elaborate designs. Online Collections and Presentations — The American Folklife Center

This image is from a booklet produced by the American Folklife Center in 1982, long out of print but available at their website as a PDF. It gives a brief description of European egg decorating traditions and explains the traditional wax-and-dye techniques for producing elaborate designs.

Online Collections and Presentations — The American Folklife Center

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Folk Object is an ongoing collection of graphic objects derived from the ornament & utility of folk culture. It's curated by Clifton Burt.

"The folk object stands outside both time and space. It signifies historicity and otherness...
The objects are less objects of ownership than of symbolic intercession, like ancestors. The marginal object stands outside the myth of progress embodied in modernity."
-Jean Baudrillard

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-Clifton Burt

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