The Complete Candlemaker: Techniques, Projects & Inspiration [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

In Norma Coney's comprehensive guide to candle-making techniques, handsome color photos and detailed text illustrate how to make 40 different kinds of candles, a number of them unusual (marbleized, tie-dyed, carved--even appliquéd). There are some amazing candles here, such as the water candle (in which a pillar candle is surrounded by what look like rolling waves of wax), sand candles, and cut-and-curl tapers. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

Both these books cover essentially the same ground and are good basic guides for making candles. They deal with waxes, wicks, molds, scents, and a variety of decorating techniques. Oppenheimer's book has a more extensive text with line drawings, while Coney's is completely illustrated with color photographs. Both have more information on candle-making than Gloria Nicol's The New Candle Book (LJ 11/1/95), a guide that emphasizes candle display. These are both good basic books for the library craft collection.
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Now you can make 40 kinds of gorgeous candles--from hand-dipped to tie-dyed, from molded to marbelized, from carved to applique'! It's fun and easy! This book provides everything you need to know to make your own beautiful candles. Guided by clear instructions and how-to photography, you'll soon know how to: find and use the necessary equiptmentselect wicks, waxes, and additiveschoose and care for candle moldsperform magic with fragrance and colorpractice work safety.

Learn to make a dazzling array of candles, including container, molded, hand-dipped, rolled beeswax, chunk, tie-dyed, hurricane, votive, interior decorated, water, sand, floating, cut-and-curl, overdipped, marbelized, stippled, embossed, carved, and appliqued. This truly is a complete candlemaking book!

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.