Make a creative version of traditional hand-rolled beeswax candles. Two color candles are tapered and have a strip of contrasting color swirling around the candle. Use the same round, cotton-braid wick in all hand rolled beeswax candles; each different size burns as beautifully as the next.
Hand Rolled Beeswax Candle Supplies
Place the template on your cutting mat, and place the one beeswax sheet on the template. Lets say you are using blue and red; cut the blue sheet first. Carefully cut the beeswax sheet along the template lines with your craft knife.
Do the same with the red sheet of beeswax.
Take Blue A and Red B. Heat them gently with the heat gun. Be careful, they are thin and will melt easily. You want to warm them, not melt them.
Place Red B just over the diagonal edge of Blue A and gently press them together. Warm beeswax sheets stick together easily.
Cut a 13" piece of wick. Press wick onto the straight edge of Blue A.
Gently roll the wax around the wick. Roll evenly so that the bottom of the candle is flat. This sounds easy but it may take some practice.
With two sheets of beeswax, you will end up with two blue candles with red swirl and two red candles with blue swirl. Don't throw away the leftover C pieces. Roll each individual C into a birthday or hanukka candle. Alternatively, attach the edges of C pieces together and roll around a wick to make a shorter candle, suitable for use as am emergency candle or Shabbat candle.
Hand Rolled Candle Tips
If you roll cold beeswax sheets into candles, you will end up with air bubbles in the rolls of the candle and possibly cracked wax. Air holes cause a candle to burn quickly and cracked wax is ugly. A heat gun is a wise investment if you like to make these candles. Do not use a hair dryer; a heat gun is a much more efficient tool and will not blow things off of your workspace.
If the wax is too hot, just wait a moment for it to cool off before handling.
A rubber, grease-proof cutting mat is the best surface to roll candles on because the warm wax will not stick to it.
Bloom is a natural substance that develops on beeswax candles over time. Bloom looks like a white powder. If you use your beautiful beeswax candles for display and they develop bloom, simply dust bloom off gently.
Embossing heat guns work well for warming beeswax sheets.
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| Photo credit: Beth Taylor |
Hand Rolled Beeswax Candle Supplies
- Two 8" x 16" beeswax sheets of two different colors
- Heat gun
- Cutting mat
- Craft knife
- Round, cotton-braid candle wick.
Place the template on your cutting mat, and place the one beeswax sheet on the template. Lets say you are using blue and red; cut the blue sheet first. Carefully cut the beeswax sheet along the template lines with your craft knife.Do the same with the red sheet of beeswax.
Take Blue A and Red B. Heat them gently with the heat gun. Be careful, they are thin and will melt easily. You want to warm them, not melt them.
Place Red B just over the diagonal edge of Blue A and gently press them together. Warm beeswax sheets stick together easily.
Cut a 13" piece of wick. Press wick onto the straight edge of Blue A.
Gently roll the wax around the wick. Roll evenly so that the bottom of the candle is flat. This sounds easy but it may take some practice.
With two sheets of beeswax, you will end up with two blue candles with red swirl and two red candles with blue swirl. Don't throw away the leftover C pieces. Roll each individual C into a birthday or hanukka candle. Alternatively, attach the edges of C pieces together and roll around a wick to make a shorter candle, suitable for use as am emergency candle or Shabbat candle.
Hand Rolled Candle Tips
If you roll cold beeswax sheets into candles, you will end up with air bubbles in the rolls of the candle and possibly cracked wax. Air holes cause a candle to burn quickly and cracked wax is ugly. A heat gun is a wise investment if you like to make these candles. Do not use a hair dryer; a heat gun is a much more efficient tool and will not blow things off of your workspace.
If the wax is too hot, just wait a moment for it to cool off before handling.
A rubber, grease-proof cutting mat is the best surface to roll candles on because the warm wax will not stick to it.
Bloom is a natural substance that develops on beeswax candles over time. Bloom looks like a white powder. If you use your beautiful beeswax candles for display and they develop bloom, simply dust bloom off gently.
Embossing heat guns work well for warming beeswax sheets.
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