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Whether you're searching for information on the history
of candles, or want to know how to make them yourself, this library of candle related
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 Candle Making: Basic Instructions Recycling Your Old Candles into Votives & Tealights Excerpt: Gather your supplies, set up your work area prep your votive molds or tealight cups, melt down your old candles, pour, set, and re-pour. It is just that simple to make your own tealights and votives out of your old candles!
Rolled Beeswax Candles Excerpt: Rolled Beeswax Candles are fun and easy to make. Beeswax smells great and burns longer than paraffin. You can make these candles in almost any size that suits you, from 16" candlesticks to 4" pillars, and more, using this simple rolling technique.
Basic Votive Candle Making Instructions Excerpt: These are instructions for beginners who have never made a votive candle before. There are no chemical additives, added steps, or advanced candle making techniques in these instructions. Just fun and simple instructions to get you making your own votive candles.
Basic Pillar Candle Making Instructions Excerpt: These instructions are for beginners who have never made a Pillar candle before. At first glance this project might seem daunting to new candle makers, but you will see that it is actually very simple to make a pillar candle it just takes a lot of words to explain how to do it.
Basic Tealights Candle Making Instructions Excerpt: These are instructions for beginners who have never made a tealight candle before. There are no chemical additives, added steps, or advanced candle making techniques in these instructions. Just fun and simple instructions to get you making your own tealight candles.
Simple Container Candle Making Excerpt: Container candles are perhaps the easiest of all candles to make. These are instructions to make a simple container candle, and include no additional steps or optional additives.
How to Tab a Wick Excerpt: Pre-tabbed wicks are available for votive and tealight candles. If don't want to use pre-tabbed wicks for tealights and votives, or if you are making container candles, or pillars which do not use a mold with a wick-whole, you will need to tab your wicks.
How to Break a Wax Block Excerpt: There are several methods of breaking up a wax block. All of them lead to the ultimate goals of having pieces of wax small enough to fit into the melting pot, and being able to measure out wax to an exact weight. Some of them are easier (and safer) than others. Here are three methods I recommend.
Candle Making: Intermediate InstructionsBall and Sphere Candles Excerpt: You've seen these cute candles all around, and the decorating possibilities with them are endlessÉ But they seem so expensive! You can make them yourself very easily at a fraction of the cost. These simple instructions will have you literally rolling in ball candles!
Flat Twisted Tapers Excerpt: The unique elegance of a flattened twisted taper is so striking, and amazingly easy to achieve. I predict you will become addicted to these twisted flat hand dipped taper candles!
Easy Dip Tapers Excerpt: Hand-dipped tapers may look hard to make, but they are actually amazingly easy! They do take some time and patience, but the results are well worth the effort. These instructions will show you the easy way to make dipped tapers.
Molded Tapers Excerpt: Tapers and Candlesticks made from molds offer an alternative to dipping, and the variety of mold shapes for molded tapers and candlesticks enables you to express yourself and your unique creativity and style.
Rustic Rolled Candles Excerpt: Rustic candles have gained popularity in recent years. Perhaps a nostalgic yearning for simpler days, or maybe an alternative to complicated processes, has sparked this newfound delight in old fashioned things.
Layered Color Pillars Excerpt: Creating a pillar candle with layers of different colors is much like creating a single-color pillar. The only difference is that periodically during the candle cooling process, you will be pouring more wax of a different color on top of a previously poured and somewhat cool color of wax.
Candle Making: Advanced IdeasSandy Sand Candles Excerpt: There are two types of sand candles. One type uses sand to shape a candle, but there is no sand on the completed candle. The other type of sand candle actually incorporates the sand into the finished candle as a shell.
Crystal Overdip Candles Excerpt: The Crystal Overdip finish gives candles a frosted, shimmering, almost dewy appearance. You can use the crystal overdip technique outlined here with almost any candle. As long as you can dip it, you can use this technique!
Making Chunk Pillars Excerpt: Chunk candles are easy and fun to make, and tend to take less time than solid pillar candles. They have a rustic charm, and make great accent pieces and gifts. Chunk candles can really bring out your creativity. Before you get started, consider making your own wax chunks.
Marble Dipping Your Pillar Candles Excerpt: This is a great project, and so amazingly easy! It only takes about a minute to make one of these candles, once you're started, but it looks like you spent hours on each candle!
Mottled Effect Candles Excerpt: The primary agent used for mottling is parol oil. Mineral oil and vegetable oil are also used on occasion. Additionally, some fragrance oils have a tendency to cause mottling in candles.
Candle Making: ReferenceWick Selection Guide Excerpt: The wick you choose depends on what kind of candle you are making, and how wide of a diameter it will have.
Using A Jiffy Wicker Excerpt: Many of our pillar candle instructions indicate the wicking of a mold using a Jiffy Wicker. If you don't know how to use a Jiffy Wicker to wick a mold, these instructions will explain it. After you have done it once or twice, it will be a snap!
How to Make Wax Chunks Excerpt: Chunk candles have a special charm all their own. To make them, you need chunks. You can buy pre-cut wax chunks or you can make your own. When you make your own wax chunks, you have total control over the color, the size, and even the fragrance of your wax chunks.
Wax Calculator Excerpt: This is a handy tool for measuring the amount of wax needed for a pillar candle holder. Simply enter the dimensions (refer to the graphic for the correct dimensions) and you'll have a good estimate of your wax needs per pillar you make!
Candle Information & Articles: GeneralAn Abbreviated History of Candles Excerpt: Candles (Latin, candela, "a light or torch," and from candere, "to shine or be bright") as we know them -- slow-burning wax enclosed around a fibrous wick for the purpose of lighting -- were used by the Romans.
How Candles Work Excerpt: We blow out candles on a birthday cake and enjoy the mood and aroma of candles for a special meal; but, how exactly do candles work?
A Look at Victorian Lighting Excerpt: The following are brief excerpts of Spurgeon's "Lecture on Candles," which may prove of interest to those who wish to see how candles affected daily life...
Wax and Wicks Excerpt: Candles are essentially wax and wicks, but don't let that fool you. There is a lot more to an efficiently burning candle than meets the eye.
Basic Candle Safety Excerpt: To practice candle safety is to practice common sense. Use your judgment and keep these few tips in mind.
A Properly Burning Candle Excerpt: When is a candle burning properly? With the wick trimmed within 1/4" of the wax before lighting, the flame should be about 1"-2" high...
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