{"id":139,"date":"2008-09-04T11:46:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T10:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=139"},"modified":"2019-02-13T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T19:30:21","slug":"rolled-candle-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2008\/09\/rolled-candle-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolled Beeswax Candle Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently ran a rolled candle making event at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwcon.org\/\">Discworld Convention<\/a> and I had a number of people asking me where they could buy more supplies. So, for those who attended (or anyone else who is interested), here&#8217;s a list of the supplies we used:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Natural, 13 <small>7\/16<\/small>&#8221; x 8&#8243; beeswax foundation sheets<br>Each sheet made two 7\u00bd candles. You can also buy the 16&#8243; sheets which will simply give you two 8&#8243; candles<\/li><li>No 1A, 3\/4&#8243; square braid wick<br>5 metres should be enough for 20 7-8&#8243; tapers.<\/li><li>Applique Wax for decoration<br>You need to scroll down about halfway down the page. I bought a pack of 12 assorted sheets which was sufficient for around 60 candles with plenty left over.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I buy all my supplies from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorne.co.uk\/\">Thorne (Beehive) Ltd<\/a>. If you&#8217;re not in the UK, you may be able to find local suppliers but check the prices carefully first &#8211; especially in hobby\/craft shops where supplies tend to be more expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructions for making a range of rolled beeswax candles &#8211; including the <a href=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2008\/02\/28\/beeswax-taper\/\">tapers<\/a> we made &#8211; can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/category\/candles\/\">Candles<\/a> section of this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran a rolled candle making event at the Discworld Convention and I had a number of people asking me where they could buy more supplies. So, for those who attended (or anyone else who is interested), here&#8217;s a list of the supplies we used:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[13,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}