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Kitchen Starter Pack Beeswax Wraps | Made with Liberty Fabric
Regular price $36.49 Save $-36.49Dimensions:
Available until sold out in Limited Edition, iconic fabrics made with Liberty Fabrics:
Expertise | Usability | Made by Hand | Fabrics | Proprietary Methods of Working with Beeswax
Expertise - we've got 20 years of skin in the game. That's tens of thousands of hours of expertise working with beeswax. Owner, Cate Burton, is the beeswax judge for the National Honey Show and is an acknowledged global expert in beeswax.
Made by Us and Made by Hand - we're control freaks at Queen B. We hand make every single candle and wrap we sell in our purpose fitout hive here on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
The next 2 largest brands in Australia outsource everything - their fabric is imported and sent directly to another company who wax it and sent to another for cutting and packing. How on earth can you guarantee the quality of your product if you don't even make it?
And then there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of wraps made in a home garage or kitchen. Are you really going to risk wrapping your food in that?
Fabrics - From our beautiful ranges Made with Liberty Fabrics to our collaboration with Jocelyn Proust, we promise to bring you an ever fashionable range of wraps with which to adorn your fridge and lunch box! We're bringing the stylish to sustainable.
Usability - before we launch any product at Queen B we ask ourselves whether the world needs our version of that product?
In the case of beeswax candles it was a resounding yes as beeswax candles had stopped being made professionally many decades prior due to the price of beeswax. All the beeswax candles we came across looked dirty, didn't burn properly and were inconsistent.
In the case of beeswax lip balm, the answer was no... there are already great products on the market that we use ourselves.
In the case of beeswax wraps the answer was again a resounding YES! All of the wraps on the market that we tested were either too brittle (so you couldn't get a seal with the warmth of your hands); had too much beeswax in the mix (causing them to crack when unwrapping things straight out of the fridge) and/or were just downright ugly. The world most definitely needed wraps that were fit for purpose... malleable, easy to seal, not too tacky, not too dry, not too stiff and most definitely not ugly!
Proprietary Methods - Our methods of cleaning beeswax (using only water, filtration and time) are proprietary and carefully guarded. Our decades of working with beeswax have also taught us exactly how to respect and work with this extraordinary material and our hive dedicates almost 500 square metres to this pursuit.
Queen B is no backyard or kitchen table business... we take our commitment to your health and wellbeing seriously and hand make products with that in mind!
Should you ever be anything other than completely delighted with anything that you purchase from Queen B, please contact us pronto... we are not a nameless, faceless business with a call centre overseas - we're a passionate bunch of humans trying our darndest to make a difference.
Liberty Fabrics - original British design since 1875. Liberty fabrics are designed via bespoke production process: hand drawn or painted by the in-house design team in Soho, London. Transformed onto fabric at Liberty’s own Italian printing mill near Lake Como and shipped to Queen B in Sydney, Australia.
Betsy Ann - BETSY was designed for Liberty in 1933 by the designer DS who designed many of Liberty's popular 1930s prints. A small scale version of Betsy, this lovely floral Liberty Fabrics Betsy Ann print was taken from the Autumn Winter Collection 2013.
Clementina - Liberty’s name is so synonymous with the Art Nouveau style that the Italian translation is ‘Stile Liberty’. This particular design from the early 1900s is often used to describe the style itself. It became popular again in the 1960s.
Floral Earth - A medley of strange fruits and abstract vegetables are scattered across a blanket of fabric as bees buzz and beetles crawl. Each element was individually painted in oils and amalgamated into a rich tapestry of warm autumnal harvest fruits and vegetables.
A medium beeswax wrap (27cm x 27cm) is suitable for a myriad of uses including wrapping:
A large beeswax wrap (37cm x 27cm) is suitable for many uses including wrapping:
An XL beeswax wrap (40cm x 54cm) is a workhorse for covering:
If you've got lots of different uses or you're starting using beeswax wraps for the first time, this is a great pack for you to start out with to work out how they fit into your life and what your most common needs are.
Solid Pillar Starter Pack (>2-3 hrs burning per occasion)
Regular price $73.05 Sale price $60.84 Save $12.21Beeswax Pillar candles are for longer burn times... a minimum of 2 hours for the 8cm & 15cm Solid Pillars and a minimum of 3 hours for the Squat Pillar. You can also burn them for anything between the minimum and as long as the entire candle takes to burn (ie there is no need to put them out after a certain number of hours).
What happens if you don't let them burn for the minimum burn time? If it happens on the odd occasion, beeswax candles are very forgiving and will simply work things out for themselves. Any more than 1 occasion in a row and you will begin to build up thick walls on the outside of the candle which makes it difficult for the wick to draw oxygen and ultimately leads to a disappointing experience which is entirely preventable by choosing the right candles for your burn times.
This pack includes:
1 x 8cm Solid Pillars | Box of 2
1 x 15cm Solid Pillar
1 x Squat Pillar
All of our Solid Pillar candles are designed to consume every drop of wax they can, so please ensure you burn them on a fire proof and heat safe container or plate.
Kitchen Starter Pack Beeswax Wraps | Classic Collection
Regular price $30.41 Save $-30.41This pack contains:
Queen B's Classic Collections of beeswax food wrap offer a variety of fabrics that we loosely describe as either "Classic Colours" or "Classic Neutrals".
The fabric you receive may vary from those you see in the photographs (not dramatically but because photography is expensive and website stuff time consuming, if we buy a short run of fabric we love it is unrealistic to load. You are always free to return wraps as new if you aren't delighted)
Expertise | Usability | Made by Hand | Fabrics | Proprietary Methods of Working with Beeswax
Expertise - we've got 20 years of skin in the game. That's tens of thousands of hours of expertise working with beeswax. Owner, Cate Burton, is the beeswax judge for the National Honey Show and is an acknowledged global expert in beeswax.
Made by Us and Made by Hand - we're control freaks at Queen B. We hand make every single candle and wrap we sell in our purpose fitout hive here on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
The next 2 largest brands in Australia outsource everything - their fabric is imported and sent directly to another company who wax it and sent to another for cutting and packing. How on earth can you guarantee the quality of your product if you don't even make it?
And then there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of wraps made in a home garage or kitchen. Are you really going to risk wrapping your food in that?
Fabrics - From our beautiful ranges Made with Liberty Fabrics to our collaboration with Jocelyn Proust, we promise to bring you an ever fashionable range of wraps with which to adorn your fridge and lunch box! We're bringing the stylish to sustainable.
Usability - before we launch any product at Queen B we ask ourselves whether the world needs our version of that product?
In the case of beeswax candles it was a resounding yes as beeswax candles had stopped being made professionally many decades prior due to the price of beeswax. All the beeswax candles we came across looked dirty, didn't burn properly and were inconsistent.
In the case of beeswax lip balm, the answer was no... there are already great products on the market that we use ourselves.
In the case of beeswax wraps the answer was again a resounding YES! All of the wraps on the market that we tested were either too brittle (so you couldn't get a seal with the warmth of your hands); had too much beeswax in the mix (causing them to crack when unwrapping things straight out of the fridge) and/or were just downright ugly. The world most definitely needed wraps that were fit for purpose... malleable, easy to seal, not too tacky, not too dry, not too stiff and most definitely not ugly!
Proprietary Methods - Our methods of cleaning beeswax (using only water, filtration and time) are proprietary and carefully guarded. Our decades of working with beeswax have also taught us exactly how to respect and work with this extraordinary material and our hive dedicates almost 500 square metres to this pursuit.
Queen B is no backyard or kitchen table business... we take our commitment to your health and wellbeing seriously and hand make products with that in mind!
Should you ever be anything other than completely delighted with anything that you purchase from Queen B, please contact us pronto... we are not a nameless, faceless business with a call centre overseas - we're a passionate bunch of humans trying our darndest to make a difference.
A medium beeswax wrap (27cm x 27cm) is suitable for a myriad of uses including wrapping:
A large beeswax wrap (37cm x 27cm) is suitable for many uses including wrapping:
An XL beeswax wrap (40cm x 54cm) is a workhorse for covering:
If you've got lots of different uses or you're starting using beeswax wraps for the first time, this is a great pack for you to start out with to work out how they fit into your life and what your most common needs are.
Taper Starter Pack (no minimum burn time)
Regular price $76.10 Sale price $66.96 Save $9.14If you burn candles for anything less than 1 hour at a time, these are the best candles for you. You can burn them for as short as a few minutes or as long as the entire length of the candle.
This pack includes:
1 x 12cm Tapers | Box of 4 (Burn Time ~6 hrs each)
1 x 20cm Tapers | Box of 4 (Burn Time ~12 hrs each)
1 x Bee Lights | Box of 10 (Burn Time ~3 hrs each)
Our Taper candles are the global standard 21mm's wide. They should fit all candle holders designed for taper candles. Our Bee Lights range in width from 7-9mm and will fit in all Queen B candle holders (or, have fun making one with clay or FIMO or bluetac etc).
The most important thing to know about tapers is that any taper (pure beeswax or other waxes) will drip in a breeze. A 'breeze' includes open windows, a fan, air conditioning etc... basically any air movement.
If the flame of the candle is 'dancing', then the candle will most likely drip. If you prefer a non-drip experience, move it out of the draft.
Tealight Starter Pack (>2 hr burning per occasion)
Regular price $65.44 Sale price $60.88 Save $4.56You would typically need to burn a beeswax tealight candle for a minimum of 2 hours at a time to allow it to burn out to the edge of the cup. You can burn them for as short as a couple of hours or as long as the entire candle burn time.
The idea of the Tealight Starter Pack is for you to be able to determine whether beeswax tealight candles suit your lifestyle and whether you prefer clear cups or metal cups (both of which can go in kerbside recycling when you're finished with them) and whether buying refills is workable for you.
This pack includes:
1 x 4 hour Tealights (metal cups) | Box of 9
1 x 4 hour Tealights (clear cups) | Box of 5
1 x 4 hour Tealight (refills) | Box of 24
To clean your tealight cups, simple pop them in the fridge or freezer overnight (this makes the wax brittle so it doesn't stick to the cup) and then tap it upside down on your bench or pick the wax out when it is still cold.
