Journal
From the atelier.
Notes on craft, scent, and slow living.
3 July 2026
Handmade candle and homeware gifts in South Africa. A simple guide.
A short, practical guide to choosing a handmade gift, by occasion, by budget and by who it is for. Candles and cast plaster homeware, made by hand in South Africa.
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24 June 2026
The first burn. How to make a candle last.
Most candles are shortened by the very first time they are lit. A short guide to the first burn, and how to make a hand-poured candle last.
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23 June 2026
On giving candles. A small guide to gifting by hand.
What makes a candle a good gift, and how we wrap ours. A short guide to gifting handmade candles in South Africa.
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22 June 2026
Quiet evenings on the Highveld. Candles for winter.
Notes on candlelight in a Johannesburg winter, and the pieces we reach for when the evenings draw in.
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21 June 2026
Candles for a wedding or a table. Ordering in quantity.
A short, practical note on choosing and ordering candles for weddings, dinners, and events in South Africa, including lead times and custom colours.
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19 June 2026
Choosing a scent you will actually live with.
A practical guide to choosing a candle scent by room and by mood, from a studio that errs on the side of restraint.
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17 June 2026
Candles as sculpture. Living with the unlit candle.
A candle earns its place on the shelf long before it is lit. On choosing sculptural candles as quiet decor.
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14 June 2026
Small batch, on purpose. What handmade actually means.
Why we pour one mould at a time, and what that decision means for the object, the price, and the waste we choose not to make.
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12 June 2026
Cast by hand. Why we work in plaster.
On cast plaster, the quiet material behind our homeware, and why we chose it for dishes, vessels, and trays.
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10 June 2026
Soy, beeswax and coconut. Never paraffin.
Why every Éluvane candle is poured from a natural wax blend, and what we will not put in your home.
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19 May 2026
On making objects that slow you down
A note on why Éluvane exists.
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15 April 2026
Why we chose restraint over fragrance.
A note on why our candles smell the way they do - and what we decided not to do.
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8 March 2026
Making the Corinth: a ribbed pillar in three pours.
The Corinth took eleven attempts before it was right. Here is what we learned.
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One of each silhouette.
BESTSELLERRope Twist
FromR 90
10 colours · 7 scents
