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Candle Mold
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A set of tapered metal tubes, usually tin or sheet iron and sometimes many joined in one frame, into which melted wax is poured around a threaded wick to cast a batch of candles at once instead of dipping them one layer at a time. A finished mold is chilled, then dipped briefly in hot water to loosen the candles for release.
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Introduced When (Circa)The technique of casting candles in a mould is credited to the fourteenth-century Sieur de Brez, though efficient large-scale mould production only arrived in the nineteenth century 1 OriginA surviving circa-1800 American tin mold in the Huntington's collection holds thirty-six candles at once, by an unknown maker, typical of the connected multi-tube molds that made household candle making fast work by the early nineteenth century. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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