Candles & lanterns
A two-bench workshop pouring small batches of coconut-soy candles and turning cedar lanterns by hand. Everything here is made in the room it ships from.
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Featured · October drop
Resin, woodsmoke and a little sweet orange. Poured last week in the amber ribbed vessel — our shortest-lived scent, back for the cold months only.
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October drop
Pine resin and woodsmoke over a thin line of sweet orange. It reads warmer after the first hour, which is why we only pour it once the workshop drops below fifteen degrees. When this batch is gone it is gone until next autumn.
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Twelve scents in rotation. Four are year-round, the rest come and go with what we can get locally.
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Turned from offcut cedar on a lathe at the back of the workshop, then fitted with a brass collar and a plain glass chimney. The grain is never the same twice, so each one is photographed individually before it goes up.
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Every vessel we sell is meant to come back. Scrape out what is left, rinse it warm, and send it in with the card that came in the box — we clean it properly, re-wick it and pour it again at refill rate.
Unopened orders can go back within thirty days. If a wick drowns or a vessel arrives cracked, tell us and we will replace it rather than ask you to post it anywhere.
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Two hours at the pouring bench. You blend a scent from the shelf, pour two vessels, and leave them overnight to cure — we post them on or you collect at the next market. No experience needed, and we keep it to eight people.
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We take the folding table out twice a month through autumn. Seconds and short-pours come to markets and never go online, so it is worth getting there early.
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Four habits that get you the full burn out of a hand-poured candle.
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A short letter that goes out with the autumn batch.
“Same formula, same supplier, and still the October pour never smells like the April one. Cold wax holds oil differently — it sets faster, traps more of the top notes, and lets them go all at once an hour in. We stopped trying to correct for it. Now we just pour the resinous things when the workshop is cold and the green things when it isn't.”Back to links
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Two benches, one lathe and a pouring pot. The workshop started as a way to use up cedar offcuts from a furniture bench and turned into the only thing we do now.
The wax is a coconut-soy blend with no dye and no hardener. Scents are blended here from essential and fragrance oils, wicks are braided cotton, and every vessel is chosen because it can be cleaned out and poured again. Batches are forty units, which is as many as fit on the cure rack.
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