Two Blown Ostrich Eggs for Carving, Painting, Decoupaging, Decorating, Craft supply.
You get two empty shells, blown, cleaned and sanitized, suitable for display, pysanky, painting, engraving or carving, and lamp making.
Each are approx. 6" x 5".
The fragility of a Ostrich egg shell is extremely hard. You need either a hammer or a chisel or some sort of power tool to get into the egg.
Egyptians were known to use Ostrich eggs as a royal dish for ancient pharaohs; across cultures, the ostrich egg has long possessed symbolic significance and associations with prosperity, truth, life, and rebirth.
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 through a hole and a bulb can be inserted instead, casting pretty shadows on walls and ceilings. The results are a big draw for modern tourists, but ostrich eggs have a long history of being used as art in South Africa. The latest finds show that people were carvings symbolic patterns into these eggs as early as 60,000 years ago.
Ostriches can grow to 6.9 – 9.2 ft tall and weights: 140 – 320 lbs, with a wingspan of 6.6 ft.!
Found across Africa's hot savannahs and open woodland, the ostrich is the world's largest buy bird.
A frightened ostrich can achieve a speed of 45 miles per hour. If cornered, it can deliver dangerous kicks capable of killing lions and other large predators
Ostriches are the largest living birds. Ostriches do well in captivity and may live up to 50 years both in and out of the wild.
Product code: Two Blown Ostrich Eggs for buy Carving, Painting, Decoupaging, Decorating, Craft supply.