Souvenir shops in South Africa are full of lamps made out of ostrich eggs. The eggs are so big and strong that you can carve and cut intricate designs into their shells. The egg’s contents are ...

Over the years, she said, people have suggested other kinds of ostrich egg art to her. At one festival, she met a man who carves the eggs into different patterns and designs. She experimented with ...

Back in the Bronze and Iron Ages, decorated ostrich eggs were among the most valued luxuries. Evidence of their broad societal sway has been found as far back as 5,000 years ago, including in ...

These days, Batle’s medium of choice is the pristine surface of an ostrich egg ... a grid for his designs, noting that perfect symmetry does not exist in a world where no egg is exactly the ...

Design and detail can also influence the price of an egg. Decorated goose eggs can be purchased for $100 and decorated ostrich eggs start around $250 on up. Occasionally decorated eggs can be ...

The Babecs' creativity comes out even more in the designs they make from extra pieces of ostrich eggs. Babec carves ornate designs in whole ostrich eggs, sometimes carving the whole way through ...

The highly detailed designs on the eggs convey religious ... tree on which the former first lady hung one of Perchyshyn's ostrich eggs. (She also sent two eggs to the Clintons for their White ...

Souvenir shops in South Africa are full of lamps made out of ostrich eggs. The eggs are so big and strong that you can carve and cut intricate designs into their shells. The egg's contents are emptied ...