Why Use Oil Candles?

People love candlelight and it is an essential part of dining out. People choose a restaurant by how it looks, before they've tasted the food, so it should be your number one priority in generating new business.

Oil candles are....

Essential!:

83 out of 100 people we actually asked, said they preferred a restaurant with candle light to one without

Clean:

Imagine, no more cleaning wax out of glasses, off tables or off candlesticks!!

Efficient:

Waste Free. All the oil is used, as opposed to throwing away butt ends of candles or melted stock.

Economical:

From as little as one pence per hour to run.

Beautiful:

Designs that do not melt!

Safe:

Fuel will not burn without a wick. Put a match in a bottle of oil and watch it go out!

Controllable:

Flame can be made smaller or larger.

Flexible:

They can be easly moved to where you need them, when ou need them, without spilling wax etc..

Practical:

There is a design to suit everybody, from small candles for tables of two, larger pieces for more impact, and guarded candles designed to protect the flame for indoor and outdoor use.

How they're made

All of our hand blown glass candles start life as a tube of borosilicate glass. The thickness of the glass, before we work on it is 2.4mm, which gives the candle great strength.

To turn this into an oil candle, the tube of glass is first placed in the jaws of a lathe, so that it can be turned at high speed.

One end of the tube is blocked with a bung, while the other is fitted with a separate bung that has a flexible tube in the middle. The other end of the tube goes into the glassblowers mouth!

Using a fierce flame, something like a blow torch, the craftsman heats up the desired section of the glass tube. By blowing into the tube, and using carbon paddles, skill and judgement, he turns the simple cylinder into the basic candle shape.

He can then add solid tubing to make a stem, like our Byzantium, which has two solid balls of glass, and a base if necessary.

Once the lamp is complete, it must be annealed. This is a strengthening process, where the candle is placed in an oven, gradually heated to 600 degrees centigrade, and then slowly allowed to cool down. Wthout this process, a piece of glass could simply shatter at any time!