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Candle Making

The Candle Maker: How to Make Candles in Your Own Kitchen
The Candle Maker is packed with ideas for natural candlemaking, giving full details of how to work safely and imaginatively with beeswax and essential oils, and showing how the superior burning qualities of beeswax can be combined with the versatility of paraffin wax to best effect. A full guide to the materials and techniques involved in making candles leads on to a wealth of more than 30 imaginative and inspirational candles, including dipped, moulded and poured candles, tiny faerie lights for your garden and candles for special occasions. Claire Leavey concludes with invaluable advice on displaying and using your homemade candles to transform the ambience of your home or garden

The Complete Candlemaker
Norma Coney presents a guide to making some 40 different kinds of candles. Coney shows how to add fragrance, colour and other surface decorations, and also gives advice on where to buy the raw materials for candlemaking

Candle Making: A Step by Step Guide from Beginner to Expert
Bob Sherman explores everything from the basic parts of a candle -- fuel, additives, scent, and wick, to instructions on how to make dozens of original candles. Here are detailed chapters on creating your workspace, choosing from the many different kinds of wax, moulds, and wicks available, and sorting through the equipment you will need. The entire book is heavily illustrated with hundreds of instructional photographs. Candles you can create: container, dipped, wax crystal, votive, marbled, applique, floating, two-tone, ice, chunk, beer, fireplace, mottled, mushroom, torched, balloon, sea shore, tie dye and hurricane shell

Great Candles
Start with a basic taper for beginners and end up with elegantly sculpted lilies that flicker...all kinds of candles can be made from the instructions in this book. Twisted and rolled, shaped like an icecream sundae; gilded, scented and stamped; floating, Siamese or mosaic...and as a bonus, the gallery of designer candles, including a bright bouquet in a vase and mini - lamps

Essentially Candles: The Elegant Art of Candlemaking and Embellishing
With over 250 colour photographs that guide the reader through step-by-step instructions, the entire candle-making process is presented for more than 20 unique candles with endless variations. From the selection of raw materials such as wicks, waxes, colours and fragrances to the finishing touches, this book offers a comprehensive look at this exciting craft. Features: Colour photographs that guide the reader through step-by-step instructions; Projects for pillar candles, dipped tapers, rolled candles, container candles, floating candles, sand candles, mould-making and much more; Guides for decorating and adding fragrance to candles

Making Scented Candles
Bring healing power, exotic beauty, and mood enhancing fragrance into any room, with candles you make yourself. The world of aromatherapy can be your world, as you practice these simple instructions for using flame and fragrance to turn eating into dining, resting into meditation, and an evening at home into unforgettable romance. Start by learning to recognize, select, and purchase essential oils and waxes. Then it's on to the basics of candle making, as you learn methods such as moulded, dipped, floating, and whipped wax, as well as techniques of embedding and finishing. Among the deliciously aromatic styles you can make: a tall "peppermint patty" that energizes and alleviates cold and flue symptoms; a musky patchouli "cracked" candle that's a great aphrodisiac; and a lemongrass stacked star to balance the nervous system. For your own personal style, follow the tips on how to mix and match candle-making methods and oil recipe blends

Candlemaker's Companion: Step-by-step Techniques for Making Candles
Explains how to make rolled, poured, molded, and dipped candles; add scent, color, and decorations to them; and create gifts and specialty candles. A Comprehensive Guide to all Aspects of Candlemaking Make romantic, beautiful, handcrafted candles for a fraction of their specialty-store cost. You'll find step-by-step instructions for a variety of rolled, poured, and dipped candles, as well as creative ideas for scenting, coloring, and decorating.

The Complete Book of Candles: Creative Candle-making, Candle-holders and Decorative Displays
All the projects in this guide to making candles are accessible to beginners but there are also ideas for the more advanced craftsperson. In addition, the book provides a range of projects for crafting innovative holders of all kinds

The Complete Book of Candles: Creative Candle-making, Candle-holders and Decorative Displays
All the projects in this guide to making candles are accessible to beginners but there are also ideas for the more advanced craftsperson. In addition, the book provides a range of projects for crafting innovative holders of all kinds.

The Big Book of Candles
Making candles is a popular kitchen table-top craft, they are inexpensive and enjoyable to make and require little specialized equipment. The end results can be beautiful accessories for the modern home and can create an immediate atmosphere in a room. "The Big Book of Candles" includes over 40 projects covering a range of techniques and materials from dipping and hand-rolling to creating moulded candles with attractive inclusions. There are also ideas for decorating candles and a range of outdoor projects. From pretty star chunk candles to delicately scented coconut shell, there should be something to suit every taste. The book contains enough variety and designes to give fresh ideas to the experienced candlemaker as well as the beginner.

Basic Candle Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started
Step-by-step colour photographs and descriptive detail make this book indispensable for beginners looking to create beautiful and functional scented candles on their very first try, and for experienced crafters who want to sharpen their skills. Precise instructions eliminate the guesswork that too often creeps into how-to books. Gleaned from the expertise of master candle makers, this guide presents everything a novice needs to know to get started crafting traditional tapers and moulded candles, container and rolled beeswax candles, and interesting variations on each. Includes guidelines for buying tools and materials, preparing the work space, and working safely and effectively, as well as suggested shopping lists.