Perhaps the most popular candle in our whole range is the Celtic Knot Love Heart Candle. When I attend craft shows these candles literally fly off the table. It is one of those satisfying objects that once you touch, or feel, or hold it, you find it very hard to let go. Like the Tartan Candles, I often saw candles that had nothing more than stickers attached and which claimed to be Celtic knot candles, either that or they would have a design drawn on and somehow or other they just didn’t appeal to me.
It took some time and a mixture of techniques to get the finished product and I can assure you, and as I hope you can see, it is a very satisfying product.
Each Celtic Knot Love heart candle weighs 700gms, that just over 1 ¼ pounds in old money. The Celtic knot design that wraps itself around the candle is 10 mm deep.
I am often asked if these candles carry any fragrance and the simple answer is no. In fact I often get quite angry as these are candles and not air fresheners. I could add fragrance oil to any of the candles but it would take the cost far too high and it would also mean that, because of the way the fragrance oil seeps out of the wax, that the gold paint would not adhere properly to the pattern on the candle.
The range of colours is endless and I only offer as standard, Red, Green, Blue, Black, White, Pink, and Orange. However, I am always willing to make a specific colour should a client request it.
The white Celtic Knot Love Heart Candle has proved to be very popular as a table center piece for wedding receptions. Firstly they really do set the tables off. Secondly people are always reluctant to light them and thirdly they seem to evaporate at the end of the evening.
Initially the greatest interest came from Irish Americans however; the Celtic Knot patterns seem to appeal to our Wiccan/New Age friends.
Although I had named this candle as a Celtic Knot Love Heart Candle, in some communities it has begun to be called the Heart Of Ulster.
Whatever name is given to this, our most popular candle, doesn't really matter, because it is so simple and pleasing and just a pleasure to look at. Plus, and something that many people like, each candle is hand poured, hand made, hand decorated. No two candles are the same and as I am limited by time and equipment these wonderful objects will never be produced in such numbers that in time there would be so many about that they would begin to blend into the curtains and wallpaper.
No comments:
Post a Comment