Miriam's original boy had been morosely toying with the red wax pooling in their table's blunt candle, dipping his fingertips to coat them, then jostling the little inverted fingerprints off to assemble, like a series of mouse-size bowls on the tablecloth, or tiny bloody footprints, a mock crime scene.
On Sunday only, the museum will also offer candle dipping, butter churning, outdoor cooking (weather permitting), storytelling and a special craft for New Year's Eve.
They have also hosted craft workshops (leather jewelry making, beeswax candle dipping) and hope to mount more.
Clean-shaven, you can strike a match, light a Cire Trudon candle, dip a fountain pen in ink (remember ink?) and write (remember writing?) a letter to the manufacturers of disposable razors saying: tsk, tsk.
Families can also participate in other old-fashioned pursuits, including quilting, churning, building wooden toys, candle-dipping and making oliekoeken, fried treats similar to doughnut holes.
Set fire to a cotton pad or candle wick dipped in honey.
The event, at the South Mountain Arena, features open skating, ice sculpture, candle-dipping, an ice show and races.
For a bit of folk tradition, visitors can dip a cotton wick into a vat of hot, musty-smelling beeswax at the candle-dipping pavilion at Bürkliplatz, open daily until Dec. 12.
On "Ticket," Ms. Savini includes the traditional cultural organizations but veers toward quirky talent demonstrations like candle-dipping, chainsaw carving and one-stroke painting techniques she can join in.
During a trip to Sturbridge, the small Colonial town that has been re-created in Massachusetts, a family we know had a splendid time watching craftsmen working as craftsmen used to work long ago, but were disappointed to find that the candle-dipping demonstration was not in progress.
The New Yorker, November 23, 1957 P. 48 During a trip to Sturbridge, the small Colonial town that has been re-created in Massachusetts, a family we know had a splendid time watching craftsmen working as craftsmen used to work long ago, but were disappointed to find that the candle-dipping demonstration was not in progress.
