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Dipping is the older method of making candles, and some-how seems to hold more of romance than the moulding. To a stick are tied as many lengths of wicking as the desired number of candles. This stick, with its wicks hanging at right angles, is held over a tub of the wax, and dipped again and again until the candle is of the required thickness.
The delicate fragrance of the bayberry candle is reminiscent of the many delightful legends and customs now dropping out of use. Let us Woodcrafters seek to revive some of them, and thus experience the “joy of being alive” which comes of these primitive activities, and which moderns are losing in the jazz rush of their existence.
Caning a Chair Seat
A square or rectangular frame is the easiest on which to learn the method of caning. The holes should be about an inch apart.
The octagonal mesh is the most common. It consists of six layers of cane, which form eight-sided spaces when completed.
The cane must be soaked in water for a few minutes to make it pliant before using. When the work has once begun, be careful not to twist the cane, always keeping the right side upward.
Place the chair with its front edge toward you. Find the middle of this front edge. This is your starting point.
I. Run a strip of cane up through the hole to the left of the middle front, leaving a 3-inch end below. Put a peg in this hole from the top, to hold the cane in place. Run the cane down through the opposite hole in the back edge, and insert a peg. Bring the cane up through the next hole to the left at the back; and pass it down through the opposite hole at the front, inserting another peg. Continue in this manner, until all the holes to the left have been filled, except the corner ones. Then, starting at the middle front again, repeat the whole to the right.
II. Start from the center of one side, and run the cane horizontally in the same way as the first layer worked vertically.
