45 commemorative stamps, depicting different regions & patterns styles were printed by PLAST about 50 years ago. Zenon ELYJIV, the artist from Rochester New York, drew up the whole scheme of the Easter Egg stamps and Stepan GELA, from Toronto, funded the project about 1960. Zenon ELEYJIV published a very nice book, "60 Scores of Easter Eggs," where some 720 different Ukrainian Easter Egg patterns are presented. The book has no ISBN number. I have not been able to find it on the market.

1) District - Pidliasha, pattern - comb.......2) District - Pidliasha, pattern - single girls.

3) Western Polisia, pattern-ram horns... 4) Western Polisia, pattern-spruce.

5) District - Eastern polisia, pattern - tulips.......6) District - Chernihiv, pattern - full rose.

7) District - Chernihiv, pattern - flower.......8) District - Kursk, pattern - cross.

9) District - Kursk, pattern - butterfly.......10) District - Cholm, pattern - rose.

11) District - Cholm, pattern - forty triangles. .......12) District - Volyn', pattern - Flower.

13) District - Volyn', pattern - ladders.......14) District - Kyiv, pattern - side rose.

15) District - Kyiv, pattern - magpies.......16) District - Kyiv, pattern - cucumbers.

17) District - Voronizh, pattern - periwinkle. .......18) District - Voronizh, pattern - rakes.

19) District-River San, pattern - curls...20) District-Northern Halychyna, pattern - flower.

21) Northern Halychyna, pattern-cuckoo bird...22) District Podilia, pattern-oak leaf.

23) District Podilia, pattern - discontinuity.......24) Poltava, pattern - standing rose.

25) District Poltava, pattern-crooked belts...26) District Kharkiv, pattern-saddlebags

27) District - Kharkiv, pattern - birch flowers.......28) District - Lemko, pattern - flower.

29) District - Boyko, pattern - divining sticks....... 30) Boyko, pattern - balsam branch.

31) District-Hutsul, pattern - churches.......32) District-Bukovyna, pattern - braids.

33) District - Odesa, pattern - curly horns.......34) Kherson, pattern - forty triangles.

35) District - Zaporizha, pattern - oak leaf.......36) Zaporizha, pattern - braided rose.

37) District - Lemko, pattern - crooked pattern.......38) Zakarpattia, pattern - sunflowers

39) District-Zakarpattia, pattern - basket.......40) District-Hutsul, pattern - horses.

41) District-Bukovyna, pattern-Easter bread...42) District-Odesa, pattern-wolf's teeth.

43) Kherson, pattern - never-ending pattern.......44) District - Kuban', pattern - stars.

45) District - Kuban', pattern - gypsy paths.

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