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Specialty Hand Poured Beeswax Candle | Marigold

$58.00

HANDMADE IN MEXICO

These hand poured floral candles are layered with love and inspiration - and have a charming story to tell.

Color: Marigold

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Story

These candles are made completely by hand from 100% beeswax from Chiapas. And the rich smell of honey and burning wood fire wafts through the small Mexican town where Viviana has her workshop. 

A true artisan, she insists that every layer of these candles is hand-poured for longer burning times. Trained in candle-making since she was old enough to handle wax, she nonetheless ran from her family legacy and married a weaver at 14 years old.

Years later, absentmindedly plucking the leaves from a rose, she was drawn back to her heritage and ancestral traditions.

Her smooth taper candles are available in black, gray, green, white and the natural tapers are a rich honey colour. Her stunning specialty candles are available in five styles and an assortment of colours.

Details
  • MEASUREMENTS: 6"x 4.5"
  • MATERIALS: 100% Natural Wax
  • ORIGIN: Mexico
 Product Care

It is recommended to cut the black burned wick with a trimmer to adjust the size of the flame.

Caution:
Do not place flammable materials near or above the candle.
Keep the candle away from direct sunlight and wind.
Never leave a burning candle unattended.

MEET THE ARTISAN

Oaxaca, Mexico

Casa Viviana

Doña Viviana makes her incredible candles completely by hand from 100% beeswax from Chiapas. Now in her eighth decade of life, she has come full circle and returned to her family tradition of candle making. Every single candle is hand-poured, layer after layer after layer. And it is a labour of love for her. But it was not always so.

Candle-making has been in Viviana’s family in Mexico for 300 years – but when she was 14 years old, she ran away and married a weaver. Despite having been trained since she was old enough to handle wax, she left it all for love.

Years later, when she sat absent-mindedly beside a rose bush and pulled the petals off a flower, she awakened her ancestral destiny. Out of nowhere, she had her eureka moment: These would make lovely candles. And they did, returning Viviana to the family tradition.

This candle represents hundreds of years of techniques and skills, handed from generation to generation. May Viviana’s candles light the way to your eureka moment.