to a stick-like handle with a drawing tip underneath for the wax to run through. this is your “pen,” which will trace your design on between dye steps.
the tricky thing about understanding the wax relief method is that anything you trace in wax will stay the color that’s underneath. for example, if you start with a white egg, any wax that you apply to the white egg will stay white. once you have all the parts you want white covered in wax, you can dip in the dye bath. say your next color is yellow, you would dip the whole egg in yellow, dry and apply more wax. all of 