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Candle Maker Videos - People Who Make Candles and Love Candles

By David Fisher, About.com

Chances are, if you're viewing pages on this About.com site, you're a candle maker or someone interested in candle making. Candle makers are a special group of people that, though they come from all walks of life and from around the world, share a common passion for that enigmatic combination of wax, wick, scent and flame. Here is a collection of videos I've found that feature the stories and creations of some of these candle makers.

1. "Hooked on Wax" by Terry Mendoza

A short documentary about the beautiful craft of creating ornately dipped "cut-n-carve" carved candles. They really are neat...and truly works of art!

2. "Candle Room" by Edward Kavanaugh

This short documentary follows the making of bees wax candles used in Eastern Orthodox Christian worship. A beautiful film featuring prominent candle maker Peter A. Kavanaugh making dipped taper candles out of beeswax.

3. Ask the Decorator - Scented Candles

Meghan Carter of Ask the Decorator visited Yankee Candle Company and spoke with one of the Senior Vice Presidents about how scented candles can do much more than add ambiance to a room, they can actually change the way you perceive it. They call it creating "Scent-mosphere."

4. Long Island Candle Factory on "The Big Idea"

A video from the CNBC show "The Big Idea" featuring the couple that created and run the Long Island Candle Factory.

5. "Light of Passage" starring Paul Robinett's Candles

What happens at night when the candle maker goes home? This inventive animated video features some of the "adolescent" Paul Robinett candles.

6. "Big Dipper" - Sarah van Gameren 2007

An amazing performance art/installation by Sarah van Gameren that features an intriguingly beautiful machine that makes candle "chandeliers" in a lyric, almost dance-like fashion.

7. The Candlemaker (Part 1)

A heartwarming cartoon from 1957 in which a candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve. (Part 1 of 2)

8. The Candlemaker (Part 2)

A heartwarming cartoon from 1957 in which a candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve. (Part 2 of 2)

9. Candles - Goodbye Art

Artist Phil Hansen making a painting entirely out of tea light candles.

10. FlameTrail Wall of Fire Waxless Wickless Stone Candles

More of an infomercial than a film about candles and candle making - but these candles really are cool.

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