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Asheville: Lark Books BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Now you can make 40 kinds of gorgeous candles - from hand-dipped to tie-dyed, from molded to marbleized, from carved to appliqué! 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 equipment; select wicks, waxes, and additives; choose and care for candle molds; perform magic with fragrance and color; practice 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, marbleized, stippled, embossed, carved, and appliquéd. This truly is a complete candlemaking book! - and - The magical light created by a flickering candle casts an irresistible spell. In fact, illumination once was considered so precious that all but the crudest lights and candles were reserved for religious purposes. Then as now, the flame of a candle symbolized hope, faith, eternity, and home. The Complete Candlemaker offers easy-to-follow instructions and how-to photographs that explain the basics of candlemaking - from priming the wick to pouring the wax. This book demonstrates everything you need to know to make a wide variety of popular candles, from elegant hand-dipped tapers to festively-colored chunk pillars. Beautifully photographed throughout, the book features gorgeous and distinctive candles made by some of the finest candlemakers in the United States. The book walks you through every phase of the candlemaking process: finding and using the necessary equipment and supplies; understanding how wicks, waxes, and additives give candles their special properties; selecting and caring for candle molds; performing magic with fragrance and color; practicing work safety. More than 40 examples are described, including container, molded, hand-dipped, rolled beeswax, chunk, tie-dyed, hurricane votive, interior decorated, water, sand, floating, cut-and-curl, overdipped, marbleized, stippled, embossed, carved, appliquéd, and more! This truly is a complete candlemaking book. Candlemaking is fun and rewarding: there is something magical about repeatedly dipping a string into a pot of hot wax and watching a taper form in front of your eyes. As with any craft, practice does matter; the more candles you make, the better your results will be. But candlemaking is essentially easy, and some candles can be made by children, under the supervision of an adult. It is easy, also, to become mesmerized watching a candle flame dart and dance in the slightest breeze. Perhaps you feel a special connection to the history and symbolism of candles, or perhaps candlelight helps you to relax. Whatever the attraction, The Complete Candlemaker will help you fully participate in a most enjoyable craft. Norma Coney teaches craft classes and is accomplished in several crafts, including dried floral design, soapmaking, and candlemaking. The author of the popular book The Complete Soapmaker (Sterlin/Lark, 1996), Norma lives in Pennellville, New York, where she and her husband, Dennis, own and operate Tanglewood Gardens, featuring more than 700 varieties of perennials, herbs, alpine plants, and container-grown plants. Norma and Dennis also operate a mail-order business that supplies handmade soaps, soapmaking supplies, and dried floral kits to customers throughout the United States.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.