Crafts
Candle Making
Also Known As Chandlery
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Dipping, pouring or molding wax around a wick: for centuries a household necessity worked in tallow and beeswax, then a chandler's trade, and today a home craft of soy, paraffin and beeswax worked for scent and light rather than survival.
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Earliest Evidence (Circa)The historian Sima Qian recorded that the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China, was furnished circa 210 BC with candles made from whale fat; Etruscan Italy is separately credited with wicked candles by around the seventh century BC, and it remains genuinely unclear which tradition, if either, came first. 1 OriginDipped tallow candles are attested from ancient Rome; whale-fat candles appear in Han dynasty China 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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