Snickella: Snickella - fibre inspired crafts

I've been as busy as a bee - so I have. Recently, I've been making bees wax wraps - we had the opportunity to learn at a community workshop in early June.

After testing the wraps over a good month, I decided I'd make more. Today I bought a big lump of bees wax from a lovely little family business based in our central market in the city to make some for Snickella.

The method we used to make them in the workshop and photos I took follow:
It's a matter of melting the bees wax and spreading it onto 100% cotton fabric (with a non synthetic brush - so natural bristles - so the bristles don't melt) then ironing it in so the bees wax penetrates into and through the fabric.

At the workshop we did - there was a saucepan full of bees wax on a gas burner, which once melted could be brushed onto the fabric. The surface which is used to iron the bees wax in, needs lots of layers of cardboard topped with old linen. Use an old iron; if you use your everyday iron, you might not be able to use it for anything other than ironing in bees wax in the future.

Another alternative to melting the wax in a pot; it is possible to grate the bees wax and then spread it onto the fabric, and then pop the fabric with the grated bees wax on an oven tray into the oven - you are limited to the size of the tray doing this though - so just something to keep in mind.
With Plastic Free July commencing on 1st July, I've been getting good use out of my bees wax wraps, and absolutely love them.