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Lumea Eterna

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A small beeswax candle studio in Rural Latvia, pouring candles the slow way.

Lumea Eterna means lasting light. We make candles for tables that are sat at, for evenings that are not in a hurry — not photographed and left. If a flame can be both useful and beautiful, that is enough.

Cappings are the wax lids bees build over ripe honey. Beekeepers lift them once a year. What remains is the finest beeswax there is — pale, clean, already filtered by the hive. That is the only wax we use: cappings, the purest, premium wax. Nothing lesser enters the studio.

In the studio the wax is melted gently, never scorched. Then it is poured, dripped and dipped — slowly, by hand, with care and patience. Each candle is artisanal, each one is unique. Colour is not added; it is the colour of the season’s honey, fragrance is not added either. The light honey scent is already in the wax, and we leave it there.

How a pillar candle is made

  1. 01

    Cappings

    Collected from Latvian hives. Rinsed of honey, melted, filtered and kept in the gold they arrived in.

  2. 02

    Melt & filter

    Melted once more and poured through many layers of fine cloth. Dust and propolis stay behind. The wax stays golden.

  3. 03

    Form

    Poured into a mould, then dripped — slowly, layer on layer — until the shape is itself. A last dip closes the surface in clean gold.

  4. 04

    Wrap

    Trimmed, wrapped and packed. Ready for your home.

Riga, Latvia

Lumea Eterna

Daugavlīči, Pilskalnes pagasts
Augšdaugavas novads, LV-5447
Latvia
info@lumeaeterna.store