From Library Journal
With candlemaking supplies widely available in craft shops, many people like to try making their own. This guide for beginners with little or no experience contains basic information about materials, tools, and techniques in the question-and-answer format typical of the publisher's other "first time" books. Projects include the currently trendy multiwick candles and candles with embedded materials. This is a useful addition to general crafts collections.
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Making candles, for the Chapelle studio artists, follows a well-established format: questions and answers for how-tos, basic techniques, and enhanced projects, followed by a gallery of ideas. This handbook begins with a brief overview of the history of wax lighting, materials, and more than just a few safety tips about working with wax and heat. With that information mastered, readers can then venture to try any one of approximately 30 projects, either a fundamental building block, such as a fragrant or dyed candle, or a much-embellished starting point, such as one adorned with sponge paint, encircled by bamboo, or embossed or sponged. A gallery at the end showcases just a few decorative ideas. Once you've mastered the ABCs by way of this handy book, then wax eloquently elsewhere. Metric equivalency chart appended.
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