Product Description

Create exquisite, handcrafted candles at home with this comprehensive primer!

From wax to wick to wrapping, the magical glow of a handmade candle is now easier to create than ever before. With illustrated step-by-step instructions and complete source lists, The Candlemaker's Companion shows you how to:

- Create rolled, poured, molded, gel, dipped, and custom-blended candles

- Scent, color, and decorate candles for special places and occasions

- Make innovative containers, holders, and gift packaging

- Create luminaria, lanterns, and floating candles

- Use specialty techniques, such as overdipping, painting, layering, and sculpting

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128868 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Amazon.com Review
"Please, please, please, burn candles!" pleads Betty Oppenheimer. "Too many people save them, keep them wrapped up in a drawer or forever in the same centerpiece holder, never to be burned." If that isn't enough incentive to use candles, the rest of this thorough guide certainly provides it in the form of step-by-step instructions covering virtually all aspects of making rolled, poured, molded, dipped, and decorated candles--even candleholders. Though there are no photos, the line drawings are quite helpful, as are the crafting tips that--along with well-chosen candle-related quotes--fill the book's margins.

From Library Journal
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.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"This book really does a great job in presenting candlemaking to the common person off the street." -- Dan Junkins, Museum Associate, Yankee Candle Company

Customer Reviews

A must for beginner and those who thought they knew candles!
This book is incredibly useful for creating a cheap candlemaking studio out of common items. It makes candlemaking accessible for the regular venturing hobbyist. It is meant to be owned. I recommend that once you get the basics of this book down that you also buy The Encyclopedia of Candlemaking Techniques A Step By Step Visual Giude by Sandie Lea to explore the more creative techniques in an easy approach. They are a must set.

What a wonderful book!! It is my "Candle Bible"
This is a wonderful , well-written book that is so very easy to understand! I found that the math formulas in the text made the process very simple to understand! Ms. Oppenheimer has a light-hearted way of informing that conveys her love of the craft while somehow managing to let you know that she was once a novice too! I have read MANY candlemaking texts in recent months and if you buy this one....you will not need to seek any further! Kimberli Witkowski....KandelKat Kreations. KandelKat@aol.com

Very well written.
This was a very well written book. I have been trying to make candles for about a year, now. The book answered alot of my questions and explained why I have been having problems with certain kinds of candles. I recommend this book very strongly.