Winter Floral Candle Workshop
Create a beautiful floral candle centerpiece for your table or mantelpiece—a perfect blend of art and function.
Create a beautiful floral candle centerpiece for your table or mantelpiece—a perfect blend of art and function.
Learn to create three fragrant botanical incense blends using aromatic oils, waxes, florals, and tree gums. Impress your guests with a home that smells divine!
Join us on Sunday, 8th December, at our new space in Abney Park, hosted by our friends at Abney Park Café, for a creative and hands-on afternoon of crafting Christmas decorations using excess beeswax from our candle-making process.
We will be participating in the Beautiful and Useful Craft Fair hosted by the Garden Museum.
Ticket Cost: £5
Enjoy a unique making experience in anticipation of the festive season with our Aromatic Orange Pomander Workshop.
Using traditional techniques and WAX Atelier’s unique blend of scented floral waxes, aromatic resins, and essential oils from blood orange, sweet orange and bitter orange, coat a clove-studded fruit to craft a long-lasting decoration. You’ll also make a silk tassel to help spread its lovely fragrance when hung—perfect for your home or as a special gift.
Join us for our first autumn workshop series and handcraft your own beeswax candle adorned with Day of the Dead-inspired wax flowers and leaves. You’ll be guided by the WAX Atelier artisans, learning new skills while crafting a unique, functional piece.
WAX Atelier will be creating a captivating collection of wax-dipped flowers directly from the beautiful Borde Hill gardens. Visitors are invited to join in the fun and create their own unique wax flower keepsake to cherish their experience.
Join Lola Lely, founder of Wax Atelier, for a special Mother's Day workshop at ISHKAR's Columbia Road store. In this 2.5-hour workshop, learn the art of transforming wax and textile waste into beautiful, long-lasting Ikebana flower arrangements. Led by Lola, you'll discover innovative techniques used by WAX Atelier to create these delicate and lifelike floral pieces.
Join us as part of TOAST Festive season program, to create a unique botanical beeswax candle centrepiece for your festive table.
Learn how to craft delicate beeswax sheets into lifelike botanical forms, such as leaves, winter berries, or a medley of petals to decorate a candle in your own unique design.
Join us in a meditative and mindful string, cord & rope making workshop at Centre 151, at the occasion of our showcase Mother Goddess of the Three Realms: Cross encounters, joining threads , during London Design Festival 2023.
Discover the fascinating craft of rope-making using plant fibers with designer Sanne Visser, during a drop-in session. This is part of our showcase program ‘Mother Goddess of the Three Realms: Cross encounters, joining threads’ , during London Design Festival 2023.
Join us for an immersive exhibition from the 19th-24th September to celebrate Viet Nam-UK heritage and cross-cultural skills at the London Design Festival 2023.
Join us at the Museum of the Home in London, to make your own candelabra and candles for Winter celebrations.
Find us at the Designer and Maker Fair at Charleston, the modernist home and studio of the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
Charleston was a gathering point for some of the 20th century’s most radical artists, writers and thinkers known collectively as the Bloomsbury group.
The fair includes 30 talented local and independent artists, ceramicists, makers and designers.
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June
10am–5pm (last entry 4.30pm)
Please note this is a ticketed event with timed entry.
Entry : £5
concessions 15% off (student, universal credit recipient, disabled or green traveller, travelling to Charleston via public transport, bike or walking).
Children under 18 are free but will need a complimentary ticket.
Make a day of it! You can combine your visit to us with a ticket to the galleries and the house which you can book online. Remember to get your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment as house visits get booked up quickly.
Enter our Auricula Theatre, a unique installation inspired by nature and English gardens.
The first Chelsea Barracks Spring Fair runs in parallel to the legendary Chelsea Flower Show. Over the three days, discover a fine tuned list of events, including influential speakers from the horticultural world, demonstrations and fellow artisans and makers.
The fair brings together a number of exciting elements including floral and plant installations by environmental floristry pioneer and Royal Warrant Holder Shane Connolly; a series of events, workshops and talks curated by internationally renowned landscape and garden designer, Jo Thompson; and a sculpture trail showcasing British sculptors curated by Marshall Murray.
Food, wine and delicious gelato will be on offer in Garrison Square – the heart of the Chelsea Barracks community and home to the historical Garrison Chapel – the perfect place to relax after the bustle of Chelsea.
Make your own unique wax rose creation in this workshop inspired by the exhibition Wild and Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose.
Tickets: £60
(includes a ticket to the exhibition)
Two sessions available:
11am – 1.30pm
2pm – 4.30pm
In the lead up to Christmas, we will be holding a pop-up stall at John Lewis Oxford Street, as part of the Curated Makers Market.
We will be participating in the Beautiful and Useful Craft Fair hosted by the Garden Museum.
Ticket Cost: £6 – includes entrance to the Museum’s collections and entry to the Dan Pearson-designed courtyard garden
Stop by for a pint and join us for a relaxed afternoon of Christmas shopping.
Join Lola & Yesenia from Wax Atelier for a very special Wax Ikebana workshop at STRAW.
WAX Atelier will be running a Traditional Dipped Candle Making workshop at the Barbican during London Craft Week, as part of a program curated by Store Store
More infos soon…
We are back at Store Store !
Join us for a candle making masterclass. We will introduce you to the fascinating craft of traditional candle making, demonstrating how to use materials and equipment to make high quality beeswax candles using the traditional ‘wax dipping’ method. All abilities are welcome, and you’ll leave the workshop with a set of two dipped candles, one hand-twisted candle and six birthday candles for your home or to give to a loved one-all.
The workshop is open to a maximum of 10 participants (age 16+) on a first come, first served basis. All proceeds supports the STORE STORE After School Club for the local state school students of Camden.
£40 (£30 students)