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The tapered dinner candle, one of the most traditional types of candle, has been used in households to provide light for hundreds of years.

Originally tapered dinner candles were manufactured by hand, dipping wicks in molten wax, allowing the wax to dry, and repeating the hand dipping process until the desired candle diameter had been achieved. This process generally resulted in elegant candles with a gradually tapering diameter. The chandler would typically produce a pair of candles on the same piece of wick, using the wick between the two to raise and lower the candles during the dipping process.

Hand dipped tapered dinner candles are still available today, have a look at our great range of pairs of hand dipped tapered dinner candles from Broste of Copenhagen.

Today’s modern tapered dinner candles are equally as elegant, but are typically presented singularly, many of the better quality candles containing stearin a material which helps to improve the burn quality of the candle and helps to reduce the amount of smoking and dripping whilst the candles is burning. Quality tapered dinner candles are produced by many manufacturers, including; Bolsius of Copenhagen, Eika Candles and Price’s Candles.

Tapered dinner candles are available in a wide variety of sizes, allowing you to choose the most appropriate height of candle for your candle holders, and to suit your dinner table arrangements, the tallest tapered dinner candles stocked by thecandleselection are a massive 38cm (15”) tall and are known as banqueting candles.

In addition to being available in a variety of lengths, tapered dinner candles are also offered in a multitude of colours, from the traditional; ivory candles, white candles, red candles, green candles and blue candles, to more contemporary candle colours, which include; black candles, pink candles, orange candles, purple candles, yellow candles, brown candles, silver candles and gold candles.

To provide some idea of the variety of tapered dinner candles available, below are just some of the candles offered by thecandleselection.co.uk, showing some of the range of sizes and colours;

	20cm Tall Tapered Dinner Candles 20cm tall, these lovely Venetian tapered dinner candles are manufactured by Price’s Candles and are currently the shortest tapered dinner candles available from thecandleselection. If you require smaller candles we suggest you look at our range of chime candles.
	25cm Tall Tapered Dinner Candles 25cm (10”) tall candles are the most common, with quality candles of this size offering burn times of up to 9 hours, they are available in a wide variety of colours, shown here is one of the 25cm black tapered dinner candles from Bolsius Candles.
	33cm Tall Pair of Hand Dipped Tapered Dinner Candles 33cm tall, these pairs of tapered dinner candles, from Broste of Copenhagen, are hand dipped in pairs to produce elegant, gradually tapering, dinner candles.
	38cm Tall Tapered Dinner Candles 38cm (15”) tall banqueting candles are the longest tapered dinner candles currently offered by thecandleselection, these candles are suited to larger arrangements and tend to be available primarily in traditional candle colours.

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