Blazed Wax is a comprehensive guide to contemporary candle making from friends and designers Ruby Kannava and Emma Cutri, with over twenty-five projects for candles that will light up your life.

Candle making is an ancient craft, but modern candle making is all about incredible shapes and surprising color combinations. This book brings together everything you need to start making your own sculptural candles at home – from unique mold-making using everyday items like fruit and vases, to dip-dyed candle-pouring, or even making fun twisted candles from supermarket candles. Including over twenty-five projects for candles and candle holders, with easy instructions, step-by-step photography and guides to materials, scents, safety and styling, Blazed Wax will have you creating in no time.

Beautiful candles are a surprisingly easy art to try at home, the possibilities are endless, and you can always melt your creation down and start again! These unique candles bring warmth and ambience to your home, are perfect for celebrations and gifts, and will become the centerpiece of any dinner table or relaxing ritual. There's something innately magical about how a burning candle brings people together, and Blazed Wax will help you to capture some of that magic in your own hand-made candles.

Emma Cutri moved to Melbourne to study fashion at RMIT, then worked as a teacher before starting her successful label SISTER Studios with her friend Alice six years ago. Ruby Cannava grew up in a house full of artists, studied art at VCA, then fell in love with jewelry while living in New York. She came home to Melbourne to study silversmithing at Melbourne Polytechnic and start her business Kannava Jewels. Emma and Ruby have been friends for a decade and lived together for the last five years, and they both run their businesses from a shared studio space in Brunswick. Their home life consists of looking after their matching poodles Bilbo and Beanie, making their house look beautiful, cooking and doing creative things, including still life painting, ceramics, mosaics and candle making. Blazed Wax is their first venture together.