How To Make Hand Carved Candles

The candles are dipped into liquid wax to build up layers of colour.

How to make hand carved candles. They show you how to shave strips up the side of the candle carefully twist them into vertical spirals and reattach them at the bottom near the base. We start by pouring a star shaped core and then dipping that in 25 - 40 layers of colored wax. Use the larger paintbrush to brush away excess wax from the carving.

AS SEEN ON HOW ITS MADE Click on video to watch how we make our candles. The melted wax temper. Dip the pair into the wax one more time for a few seconds.

Ad Shabbat Candlesticks Fantastic Creations 30 off. Depending on the size core you use you have to presoak it in wax for anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes to make sure the cold core doesnt cool your candle off as your carving it. Take the embossing tool and carve out the design following your indentations.

Thank you for subscribing to the channelManufacture of hand-carved candles from the DIMSI candle work. This helps make the wax harder and keep your colors bright for many years. Step by step DVDs or personal candle carving lessons will teach you all of the techniques and secrets that will make you a successful carver within 1 day.

I add stearic acid to the wax in both the core and the colored dipping wax. Intricate twisted ribbons carved weaves and patterns. Finally you want to dip the candle in a glaze that will protect your decorative carved candle by keeping everything in place.

Six Sided Beauty AS SEEN ON HOW ITS MADE Look for the trademarked six-sided ribbon candle Dutch Garden design including the windmill tulips hummingbird butterfly fantasy flower and swan its always from Holland House Candles Inc. About 110 is sufficient for the carved design. It is made from paraffin and finished with an acrylic glaze.